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before that he is no longer liberal he
great speech on the budget he announced
liberal party. Lord Rosebery is always
interesting and his periodical abandon
ment of his lonely furrow'' when he ad-
dresses the world is looked for with
keen delight.
Yesterday his foot was on his native
heath. and his armor on. Clash of swords
resounded in the old city of Glasgow. The
Scots are proud and fond of their Rose
berry. He has even been named the King
of Scotland" He has overcome the Pres
byterian Philistinsm of the country by
humoring it with the rarest sanity and
prudence.
When he won his first derby with La
das the elders Of the kirk growled and
some of them wept. when l win a
race remarked the pawky earl, those
good people are grieved. but they do not
care how many times l lose one"
Scotland has come round to find the
man greater than the politician. Deplore
the errantry of the politician she may
but somehow she cannot withhold her
love from the man, who is none the less
a man for being an earl and the possessor
of great wealth and the winner of three
derbies.
By birth, by ancestral inheritance, Lord
Rosevery is the flower of the British aris-
tocracy. British-half Scotch, half Eng
lish, which is seldom failure In human
pedigree. Was not his mother, the late
Duchess of Cleveland, a Stanhope, with
the blood of the Pitts in her veins. a
queenly woman, adorned with all gifts
and graces, and an unbending conserva-
tive? On the side OF paternal descent,
the first baronet in the Primrose family
called Cromwell, the hypocrite. usurper,
regicide and defended Charles.
Time changed In Scotland. The first
baron-Scottish peer-was a great man
and a patriot. although he was called a
Belial by Burnet, one who could let his
tongue drop mama, although his thoughts
were low. his motives basely self-regard-
ing. Through him the family was linked
upon the old whip tradition. According
of the best qualities of the whip and the
tory in the political personality of Lord
Rosebery.
When Wing and Tory Meet.
Wing and tory meet and are one when
property and privilege are threatened by
an ultra radical government of the day.
which cannot resist the molding hand of
socialism. They were never far apart
They fought only for the spoils. The
tories We're the superior men, the wings
the theory of lex rex''-the law above
the king and the people the fountain of
the law-upon which wing history was
established.
But the tories were the nobler patriots,
less self-centered. less greedy and cana
bic of greater sacrifices for king and
country. Contrast the whig type in Stair.
who was responsible for the massacre of
Glencoe. with the tory in the Earl of
Nithsdale and the highland chieftalns who
nd tota L.
Jacobite cause. This survival Of the
forces lying deep behind whig and tory
history is the key to the personality of
Lord Rosebery and to his vagaries In the
politics of our time.
Radical in youth, conservative in age
Not invariably. But Lord Rosebery was
never radical otherwise than in sentt-
ment, and as the herO-worshiper was
fascinated. almost infatuated, for a time,
by the genius of Gladstone. JAS chairman
of the London county council, he had
fleeing visions of the glory hidden in
democracy. He even at that stage SUD-
ported the policy of taxing urban site
values The blossom of radicalism was
not followed by any corresponding fruit.
democracy presented an opportunity to
the scholar. the orator. the wit, the
maker of humorous epigramS
Rosebery the Actor.
He loved to play upon the emotions Of
sympathetic liberals in the mass as a
Paganini or a Neil Cow loved to play
upon the responsive strings Of the mystic
violin. But the moment serious de-
partures were ventured upon inside his
party in the direction of the full realiza-
ton of the principles Of democracy, he
retired to his only furrow, or made his
suilen exit from the tabernacle. or refused
to serve under the new banner.
He never was convinced home ruler,
he merely, believed that he believed that
home rule meant no more than an inno-
cent devolution. This belief of a bel eff
enabled him TO become prime minister,
and to complete his wonderful triad Of
ambitions-to be prime minister. to win the
Derby. and to marry the richest heiress
in England.
He was always the WING imperalist
When the majority of the radical party
opposed the BOer war, he could mot
serve under that banner
The arstocrat the depository i'm his
massive personality of the best elements
of WING and tory traditiOn-thiS is the
Lord Rosebery who now offers himself for
the Wellington of the Waterloo which
must determine the fate of the budget
His sympathy with the people was never
intimate
The Scots pardon all things to him be-
cause he loves Burns. They went almost
crazy over his Burnsian Grafton of 1856.
Lord Rosebery was remote from the
farmer and excise-man whose genius he
praised. His attitude was not different
toward the poet from the attitude of
patronage which Burns discovered in his
own day in the Earl of Glencairn and the
noblemen of the Caledonian hunt.
Year Memorable for Achievements.
The double claim to polar discovery
which DIR. Cook and Commander Peary
have advanced in the last few days comes
as an addition to events which will make
the present year memorable for it's nu-
merous achievements in the fields of ex-
ploration and scientific effort
The year was young when Dr. M. A.
Stein, the leader of the Indian govern
ment mission to Central Asia, returned
to London with the story OF his three
years travel and archaeological nvestiga-
miles. traced 300 miles of the ancient
frontier wall of China and secured docu-
ments going back to the remote days Of
100 B. c.
Only few days later the announcement
was made that a Sheffield firm had dis
covered q new form of steel possessing
cutting power seven times higher than
the form of hgh-speed steel hith erto
known. This d'scovery," Prof Arnold
said at the time. puts an immense
power in the hands of British engineer
ing"
Next in point of date was the return
to civilization of DR.. Sven He'd n, who
broueht with him fresh stores of geo.
graphical KNOWLEDGE from mysterious
Tibet. Lieut.. Shackelton soon afterward
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