Similar action is being taken in the case of Lord
Hugh Cecil. Every one must admit that through his detachment of mind, and his power of bringing a clear and scholarly intellect to bear upon political questions, Lord Hugh would prove an absolutely ideal Member for a University. Again, his Church views are those favoured by the majority of the Unionist electors in the University of Oxford. In addition to this, Lord Hugh has of late withstood the claims of the Socialists with special vigour and brilliancy. By none have the mischievous doctrines of those who would make our people the serfs of the State been more effectively exposed. But though Lord Hugh's incomparable services in this respect are universally acknowledged by Unionists, those services are to count for nothing because he has dared to differ, as did his father, from Mr Chamberlain on the matter of setting up a tariff ! Even at the risk of letting in a Home-ruler, Lord Hugh Cecil is to have a Tariff Reformer run against him: What makes this opposition all the more monstrous is the fact that the Tariff Reformers would in any case have had a representative in Sir William Anson. In other words, if Lord Hugh's candidature had not been opposed, a most reasonable and appropriate compromise would have been the result. Not since the guillotine was set up at the headquarters of the Republican armies, and men who were fighting for the Republic one day were guillotined the next, have such tactics been seen.
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