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SCOTTISH LETTER SCOTLAND AND THE GENERAL
ELECTION. "
ADVANCE OF SOCIALISM.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
second one was not kept waiting for long "but when the, voter returned she an tunced to his chagrin that she had voted for the other fellow, But you're a nivo man all the same," she added by way of compensation, and his comment was a Oh I'm a sport.' But Beho gralging
beard stronger language later on. WALL IT BE A "BILL JOY?
In the opinion ef that good judge, C. Macfarlane, the golf ball with the lighter core-if" does come to be the the standard fixed upon-will unl death-knell of the mushie niblick, a club which, he says, is responsible for many fallures. The game, he admits, however, will become even more interesting, and soring will be just as low from the That, of Jizz
may
Edison. December 12th. Unionism hat held its own. but Liberalism bus lost heavily to Socialism: that in a nutshell is the outcome of the polls in Scotland The Unionists now hold 16 seats instead of 13; the reunited Liberals 24 as against 2s; the Socialists MARTELL & CO. 34, as against while Mr. Serymgeour
in Dundee remains as a party by self Thus the Socialists have made
This advance of net gain of five seats. Socialism in our midst is the most un- pleasant feature of the situation. Eur. merly its strength lay mainly in Cilas gow and the Clyde and the industrial part of Lanarkshire, but it has now spread its tentacles in Eastern Scotland. particularly in the mining areas border ing on the Forth. In the North of Scott Fand and in the South the hard-headed sons of the soil remain proof against its blandishments. A factor in Scotland Seersus THE IRISH..
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ation of the party organisations of j Unionism and Liberalism consequent on the Coalition period. The Socialists, on the other hand, kept their activities at the highest pitch of efficiency. Unionists have suffered even more from this defective preparation of the ground
The
the first golfer. point of view quite all But what about the rank and file? The
$ Breatest joy of the ordinary players is got in a hefty drive. The heavy core (31 pennywight) suits them nicely. hayo come to like it. And now with the lighter core they are going to be at least yards with their drive and a like die anes with the cond. There is certainly
much for them to enthus ever in the. proposed change
tax.
Mr. T. P. O'Corine aked why it Was the mass of the Irish in Great Britain were still howers of wood
mid drawers of water, and
many hun- There of them-he might
safely have id hundreds of thousands-ti lived
Mr. O'Connor discreetly than have the Liberals. In no fewer than the slums.
apt to find from any refrained 10 enses Socialists will air as minority the complete Ter to the questions. representatives. That is a consideration It is permissible to contrast the fortunes which should surely bring home to both of the Irish in Great Britain with thong the constitutional parties the folly of of the Scots in England. Until very recklessly splitting the anti socialist vote. rent times, the average youth who left It will be noted that in each of these Scotland to seek his fortunes in the South cases, with the exception of Kilmarnock had the same handicap of poverty to con Division, it was the Liberal nominee who tend with as the average emigrant from was at the bottom of the pool, There Ireland. Yet the success of Scotsmen in was a desine on the part of important il walks of life aroused
actual iculous representatives of both Unionista and the Englishmen of Johnson's day, and Liberals to avoid these suicidal contests. has been proverbial ever since, and we but unfortunately local dificulties gener-wy much doubt if many Scots new to be It is not that ally intervened. The desire of each side found in English slums to have a candidate of its own is intural the Scot is Keener in the purait of money the love than the Irishman. In
respect of and intelligible. But under the new con-
be ditions it can be indulged in most cases of money there is not much difference
tween one nation and another Nor is the only with highly unpleasant results.
The results of the Election in Scotland ultimate reason for the contrast to be
the educational found in
system contain voter, who is less concerned with the return of a Unionist or Liberal candidate
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of
vital lesson for the noderate What system is merely on. “
of the two characteristics to Scotsmeve used their success
than with defeating Socialism. If we had respect for knowledge and a love of per- Scottish Home Rule to-day, and the same sont independence. To what extent hav shortsighted electoral tactics on the part those qualities been cultivatal or encour- of the opposing parties. Scotland would aged in Ireland itself or among the Irish have a Socialist Government in power. communities in Great Britale ? That is with such extremists as Mr. Wheatley or the question that must be freed by Irish. Mr. Kirkwood, as Prime Minister, and men who desire to raise the status of their. with Mr. Maxton at the head of the compatrio
compatriote in
this
country: So lang ar Scottish Education, Department. Yet the
Irishman regants the State auch a Government wouki represent as bis sponsor and the slim as his pre hopeless minority of the people of Scot destined home, and long as the social land, for the anti-Socialist vote was in virtues of self-help, prudence, and fore the ratio of more than two to one sight are actively discouraged by the Nevertheless, the Socialists are only six spiritual and intellectual leaders of the xhort of having an absoluté majority ond
people, the migrants from our sister be found at the bottom of the rocial sole. LAUGHTER IN COUET.
the Scottish Grand Committee. GOLFERS IN PARLIAMENT,
average
Quite a number of golfers of respect "โช the course of a lecture on Humour able attainments have been returned to of the Scottish Bar," Sheriff Orr told thu Westminster. Though the two games gu following stories. prisoner who was together very nicely, high skill in the one the withdrew his plea, and the case went with theft at first plended guilty, is seldom matched by a noticeable flair then
for the other, indeed only two Prime trial. After the cases had been heard Ministers have ever won the Parliament the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. nry Handicap. Lord Balfour has three On dismissing the acsel, the Judge wins to his credit off a handicap in the addressed him thus Prisoner at the region of seven, and sixteen years ago, bar, ma have admitted you are a thief, the when his handicap was fifteen, the late jury bave found you are a liar, you now The leave the Cont without a stain on your Mr. Bonar Law came out on top. golff David Lloyd George is as erratic In another cave the jury had retired to
character, as we might expect it to be. One can.
consider their verdict, By and by they not help thinking that some bunkers must rang the bell to ask if they could have á have heard the Limehouse toach. Yet
glass of water, According to the law of there is a
tablet on the Nice Course Scotland, it should me suid, the jury are which says Mr. Lloyd George did this forbidden meat or drink once they have hole in one." There's fame for you.
been enclosed until they have returned their verdict. The Judge, fraking quite LOCAL VETO PULERE.
Polling in Scotland on the Local Veto grave, delivered his decision slowly and Art is now practically concluded, and, deliberatels, "Well, ye canna' ca' it ment; No and it certainly isna drink-they can a whole. taking the country, as Licence has lost Fround during the last have their water,” three years instead of gaining it." Tho leading Prohibitionists are themselves admitting a disappointing failure. Fur ther, in almost every case, especially in the cities nad large towns, in which "dry" areas have been created, the result has merely been to increase the custom of licence-holders in.
adjoining "wet" nreas.
There is no reason to believe that agitation by the Prohibition- ists for another three years will alter the ind of the country in any substantial No cause for rejoicing is found is
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