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Leading ARTICLES in the Reviews 



THE LEADERS OF THE UNIONIST PARTY. 



Therk are two articles in the Fortnightly Rnirw 

 concerning the change in the leadership of the 

 Unionist Tarty— one bv " Curio " on " New Leaders 

 for Old,' and the other by Mr. Arthur A. Baumann, 

 " The End of the Dual Control." 



"Curio" says the bitterest critic of Mr. Balfour will 

 willingly bow his head in the presence of history and 

 acknowledge the greatness of the past. He thinks 

 Mr. Balfour was the greatest Foreign Minister since 

 Pitt. He was an ideal administrator in times of 

 stress, when someone else 

 could supply the demo- 

 cratic backing. When 

 Mr. Balfour look over 

 the Premiership he blun- 

 dered in his Education 

 policy, and at first h>r 

 destroyed confidence in 

 his straightforwardness by 

 the way in which he 

 dealt with his colleagues 

 on the Free Trade (Ques- 

 tion. But, although handi- 

 capped by this initial 

 failure, in the five sub- 

 sequent years he re- 

 remcnted the party, and 

 brought it up alive and 

 kicking in the interest of 

 Tariflf Reform and Em- 

 pire. He could unite his 

 followers because he 

 could not understand the 

 people. He knew his 

 party better than the 

 people. He avoided 

 Peel's colossal blunder, 

 and preserved the party 

 instrument intact. He 

 fought magnificently 

 against fate in the election 

 of 1 9 10, but the age had 

 marched [)ast and left 

 the great man behind. 

 'I'he Salisburian epoch 



has gone and taken its arguments with it, and newer 

 and more raucous voices now tickle the popular ear. 



The physical conditions of leadership in a hustling 

 age have become too onerous, but " Curio" thinks 

 that .Mr. Balfour will make his power more widely 

 and adequately felt. His relation to |K>litics and to 

 party have reached that ideal stage where all his 

 merits will shine out and his defects cease to count. 

 "Curio" regrets th.it Mr. Austen f'hambcrlain was 

 not Selected as Leader, hut he rejoices in the nomina- 

 tion of Mr. Bonar Law, who. if he represents no 



particular past, is none the less likely to possess a 

 tremendous future. There is a feeling abroad that 

 at last the party has found not only a great intellect, 

 but a man. " Curio " exhorts Mr. Law to adopt 

 Ihcse four mottoes : Believe in Men ; Distrust Bureau- 

 cracies ; Trust the Democracy ; Believe in Yourself. 

 Mr. Arthur A. Baumann, in his paper on " The 

 End of the Dual Control," says that Mr. Balfour has 

 simply broken down under the intemperate demands 

 of Demos upon his resources. His retirement closes 

 an unhappy chapter in the history of the Tory Party 



— a chapter of indeci- 

 sions, of blunders, and, 

 consequently, of defeats. 

 Mr. Baumann thinks that 

 the fatal, accursed duality 

 of leadership, which be- 

 gan in 1902, was the 

 source of all the Unionist 

 misfortunes. Two men of 

 first-rate ability, each with 

 his own ideas, and each 

 with his own following, 

 tugging in difTerent direc- 

 tions, must break up the 

 strongest party that ever 

 sat at Westminster. As a 

 result of the dual control, 

 Mr. Joseph Chamber- 

 lain supported the Edu- 

 cation Bill, although he 

 knew it was a blunder. 

 Mr. Balfour was so 

 an.Kious to retain the 

 support of both Free 

 Traders and Protection- 

 ists that he lost the confi- 

 dence of both. Mr. Bau- 

 mann rejoices to believe 

 that Mr. Balfour's succes- 

 sor will be untrammelled 

 by the fetters of the ill- 

 starred Coalition. .Xt last 

 the Unionist Party is one 

 and undivided, so far, at 

 all events, as control is 

 Mr. Bonar Law to be 

 slave of " the machine." 



The End of the Day. 



From spur to plume a si.nr of tournameiil." 



— Tlie Passing oj Arlltur. 



concerned. He e.\horts 

 the master and not the 

 He may win with almost any policy, if he will 

 only run it plainly upon the country. Is Mr. 

 Law going to droj) the food taxes, or is he going to 

 run them? If he droi)S them frankly, an overwhelm- 

 ing Unionist majority at the ne.xt election is a cer- 

 tainty. If he decides to run the food taxes, then let 

 him do so clearl)', enthusiastically, [lersistently. 



Mr. Baumann concludes his jiaper by suggesting 

 that Mr. Law might do well to take a secret ballot of 



