Lord Randolph Churchill, who is nothing less than a Con-
servative;—a Tory revolutionist is the name which would, per- haps, best describe him,—bas declared this week not only us favour of Mr. Broadhurst's motion as to leaseholds, but also in favour of State-paid elementary education, i.e., in favour of abolishing the school pence paid by the children and the school rates paid by the ratepayers also. In other words, he would throw the whole expense of elementary education on the central authority, and would set the School Boards completely free to incur expenses which the State would be compelled to- defray out of the taxes. A less .Conservative suggestion and,. we will add, a more mischievous one,—which goes far beyond the proposal of Mr. Chamberlain, who, so far as we know, has never proposed to hand over the taxpayers' money to Local Boards freed from the invidious duty of finding means for the expenditure they sanction,—has never been made in our generation, by any living politician.
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