Mr. Chamberlain spoke on Tuesday at a Liberal-Unionist Federation Conference
held at Leeds. Like Mr. Courtney, he insisted on the danger of letting Home-rule fall into the background. The shortness of English political memory, and our habit of being unable to give attention to more than one thing at a time, made the situation a very critical one. "I confess that unless we take care, there is some fear that the people may forget the one real question, and give a majority upon other issues,—a majority which, I am as sure as I am standing here, the Government will at once proceed to use to, bring Home-rule once more to the front. Home-rule han been withdrawn from the stage, but it is always behind the curtain." Social Reform, ended Mr. Chamberlain, was the- peculiar work of the Unionist party. As a party, they were in a better position to carry out Social Reform than their opponents.
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