- Mr. Morley, too, has been speaking in Devonshire. On Tuesday
he delivered an address at Plymouth. He insisted on it that the battle was not exclusively about Home-rule, but was "all along the line." It was a battle for religious equality, for abolishing the hereditary privileges of one branch of the Legislature. It was a battle in favour of putting public ele- mentary schools under popular control. It was a battle for Village Councils. It was a battle against coercion in Ireland, and so on ad infinitum. Well, it may be a battle for all these things, but it is certainly not a battle by the winning of which all these, or many of these, even if any of these, causes can be won. It is a battle in favour of finding a solution to a problem which cannot be solved consistently with the safety of the Kingdom, and in the wrangle over that issue all the other issues will be submerged. But even if the other causes could be gained by winning the battle, there is not one of -them which ought to be gained in the sense in which Glad- stonians desire to gain them.
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