We trust that the Rhodes-Schnadhorst incident may now be allowed
to rest,—though we need hardly say that we shall be delighted to meet Mr. Asquith, or any other prominent Liberal apologist of Mr. Rhodes's methods in regard to party funds, if he insists on continuing the controversy. Some of our critics in the Press seem to think that we are not easy as to the part we have played in the matter. On the contrary, we are heartily glad to have helped to bring the matter to light, for we are convinced that the public interest has been served thereby in two most important particulars. In the first place, there has been a distinct clarifying of the public mind concerning the party funds and the rights of the millionaires in regard to their subscriptions thereto. Next, the power and influence of Mr. Rhodes in our political system has distinctly, suffered. Those two objects were, in our view, well worth achieving.
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