Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman made two speeches at Stirling on Friday
week. In the afternoon, addressing the General Council of the Scottish Liberal Association, he declared that he and his hearers were impervious to obloquy and abuse: "We do not care the toss of a ticket what this great newspaper or that great newspaper may say." They might have to play a waiting game, but they had right, justice, and truth on their side, and sooner or later the country would appreciate the doctrines and principles which they were pre- pared to maintain. In the evening, addressing a great public meeting at the Albert Hall, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman referred at the outset to the meeting of the Liberal party last July, and made it olear that the result of that meeting endowed him with an authority and imposed on him an obligation which would be present in every word he said that night. As for the alleged new compact giving the members of the Liberal party a new license to speak and act as they chose, he knew nothing of it. His business was "to keep the bead of the ship straight, whatever be the theory of naviga- tion which possesses the minds of some members of the crew." The rest of the speech was devoted almost entirely to the war. He admitted that no heroism or sacrifice had been wanting on the part of the Army. But in regard to the entire action and policy of the Government from first to last, they might blush for their oountry's character. He reiterated his charge of the adoption of the methods of barbarism, condemned the con- centration camps as a process which nothing could justify and the demand for unconditional surrender as senseless and imbecile.
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