Mr Chamberlain and Lord Rosebery.
+ In a letter to the v Birmingham Post," Mr Chamberlain, referring to the Premier's speech at Devonport, draws attention to the "amazing passage " in which the Prime Minister says, " What have we against us? Almostall the wealth of the country, almost all the press, almost all those looal influences of which I bave spoken, almost all the men of education. I sometimes doubt if there is a member of the Liberal party who can spell woids in two syllables." A quarter of a century ago every earnest Liberal of that day was actively forwarding the cause of national education, and one of the great arguments which he used was that we must, as Mr Lowe said, " educate our masters," since it would he dangerous to the commonwealth to entrust our destinies to ignorant and uneducated men. Now we have a Prime Minister who boasts, with a light heart, on the eve of proposing a resolution, that he is supported by the men who cannot spell, and opposed by almost every person of education, and it is to the former that he is willing to commit the guardianship of the British Constitution and the liberties and interests of the English people.
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Manawatu Herald, 14 February 1895, Page 3
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205Mr Chamberlain and Lord Rosebery. Manawatu Herald, 14 February 1895, Page 3
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