Lord Herschel delivered a singularly moderate and reason- able speech
to the Eighty Club on Thursday night, concerning the Irish Home-rule Question ; but when he complains of the contempt with which the Unionists treat the Honie-rulers, he only echoes the complaints uttered by the Unionists of the treatment they receive from Lord Herschell's less scrupulous colleagues. Lord Herschel could hardly have stated the case better for the Gladstonians ; but on his own showing, as it seems to us, Mr. Gladstone should have exhausted the effect of his agrarian legislation before committing himself to the trial of any political remedy. There was his great strategical blunder, even if he were right in thinking that the most adequate agrarian legislation would be insufficient. We can hardly doubt that in his heart, Lord Herschell himself inclines to this last opinion.
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