Mr. Balfour made a " good; rattling speech at Glasgow
on Thursday night. He laughed at the inconsistency of the Radical organs, which complained in July of the Government for having no programme, no political food to offer us at all, and now complain of the encirmous length. of the programme and the great danger of overfeeding.- And he expressed his own deep conviction that the last Govern- ment fell not because it proposed too much,. but because. its proposals were regarded by the people at large aa intrinsically bad. He delivered a spirited defence of the Government for keeping Chitral in spite of the intention of the former Government to abandon that frontier post of the Indian Empire. And he stated, what we do not think had been stated before, that the independent" tribes in that region are sending petition after petition to be incorporated, with the British Empire. He commented on Lord Rosebery's. declaration that one of the reasons why his Government waa overthrown was that they had proposed too much, and endeavoured to elicit which of their destructive proposals. they now wish to abandon. Of any desire to produce a con- structive policy they have shown stud not the smallest trace.
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