Mr. Balfour spoke at Haddington yesterday week. He laughed at
Lord Rosebery for having asked with great emphasis and pomp for a popular mandate to attack and abolish the veto of the House of Lords on legislation, before any of the Ministers were agreed on what exactly should be done, and what, if anything, should be built on the foundations of what they propose to raze to the ground. Among the sixteen Cabinet Ministers he supposed that there were at least sixteen different plane for the practical execution of the policy Lord Rosebery had brought forward. It had, for instance, been Mr. Bryce's "hard fate to be associated throughout his Ministerial career with a Government which required him in his capacity of Minister to contradict every general principle which he had laid down in his capacity of political author." Mr. Balfour maintained that the very pillars of the Scotch Liberalism of thirty years ago, are now the pillars of Scotch Unionism, and that they preach just the same doctrines now that they preached then. Modern Conservatism is of the very same stock as the old Scotch Liberalism. Happy-go-lucky Radicalism had no root in the minds of the most thoughtful and successful of the old Scotch Liberal party.
