Labby Dresses Down Mr Chamberlain

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 89, 17 January 1893, Page 4

Labby Dresses Down Mr Chamberlain

Thus Mr Labouchere in Truth MIs it not positively sickening 'to find 1 Mr Chamberlain, in a letter in which he excuses his absence from some Tory orgie at which Lord Salisbury was the chief speaker,, improving the occasion to denounce any attempt to, "eclipse all the work that the Christian missions have carried on with such selfsacrifice in Africa " 1 On the Western side of Africa there is a Chartered " Company, in which, I believe, Mr, Chamberlain is largely interested.' Its main revenue seems to be derived from a heavy duty levied on tiiaj spirituous liquor that philanthropists sent out to the natives inhabiting the area of the company's sway. Has the Company, has Mr Chamberlain, himself, spent one farthing in spreading Christianity among the natives! : Hardly the latter, I should imagine/ for Mr Chamberlain is ' (as hfe has a perfect right to be) a Unitarian, and the teaching of the Church Missionary.}' Society is not precisely that whieK would recommend itself, to the mind of a Unitarian. This letter is a fine; instance of the way in which the "Christian" stick is being used ty the Unionists to beat all who are not Jingoes. Mr Chamberlain concludes his letter by an appeal to us to stand by the Ten Commandants. Does anyone doubt that if Mr Chamberlain' had been one of the Israelites who heard Moses proclaim the Ten Com* mandmente, he would not have at once moved a dozen amendments to? each of them { and that^ if these emendations had' been voted down, he would not at once have come forward with an unauthorised code of laws 1 ' 1