While Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was speaking at Dunfermline Lord Rosebery
was addressing the Scottish Liberal Club in Edinburgh. After an ironical reference to the exploits of the House of Lords and the passage of the Education Bill, he turned to the achievements Ol the "benignant Government which thrives on war and on taxation." It was worth considering, he observed, whether we did not pay a little too dear for the luxuries we enjoyed ; but "the nation at large" could not claim the sympathy of any intelligent person. "It has the Government that it deserves, that after careful reflection it chose." He thought that if anything could bring about the unity of the Liberal party it was the educational policy of the Govern- ment, and he ridiculed the suggestion of the Tory Press that now that the Bill had become law Liberals should work hand- in-hand with Unionists to make it a success.—We may note parenthetically that Lord Spencer, by his declaration in the House of Lords, incurs the same ridicule.—Finally, Lord Rosebery observed that if Liberals found themselves within measurable distance of responsibility and power, he believed that many of their dissensions would be healed ; whether they got that power depended on how the country took this measure of education and the principles which it involves.—Does Lord Rosebery, we wonder, identify "the country" with "the nation at large" ? If so, the prospect from the Liberal point of view is by no means reassuring.
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