2 FEBRUARY 1929, Page 3

On Friday, January 25th, the Prime Minister spoke at Dundee.

It happened that January 25th was the .birthday of Robert Burns, and Mr. Baldwin, with his literary instinct, did not overlook the fact. He said • that Burns stood for " our common humanity," and that phrase became the motto of his speech. The .object of the Unionist Party was to give the simple man " in virtue of his humanity " a chance to become the ,best that was in him. For evidence Mr. Baldwin asked his audience to look at what the Government had done in pensions, housing, education and the equal franchise. Burns, at the time of the French Revolution, had written " The rights of women merit some attention." Mr. Baldwin reflected that Burns could little have thought that the attention would come " from a Tory Prime Minister."

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