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December 1, 1906. 



with M. Stolypin, despite his compromising 

 allies. There is something mean in refusing to re- 

 cognise bravery and self-devotion in those who do 

 not happen to be on our side in politics. When 

 General Trepoff, for instance, was alive, it was 

 regarded almost as treason to liberty to speak a 

 good word for him. No sooner does he die than 

 even his most Radical opponents sound his praises. 

 Whv wait till men are dead to recognise their vir- 

 tues ? 



criticisms I have often had occasion to pass upon 

 him and his policies during his life. Indeed, ever 

 since he took the fatal plunge into Protection in 

 order to cover up the trail of the war, I have hardly 

 felt any other sentiment towards him save that of 

 profound pity. What an end was this to a career 

 which had begun so brightly, and which was fol- 

 lowed by so many with such high hopes ! His 

 physical dissolution — which I sincerely hope may be 

 far distant — can hardlv add to the melancholv re- 



Pholo hi/l 



Archbishop of Canterbary. Lord Stratbcona. Mr. Carnegie. Principal Marshall Lang 



An Interesting Group at the Aberdeen Celebrations. 



IE. E. mat. 



I was startled the other day to re- 

 Mr. Chamberlain's ceive a laconic letter from the edi- 

 nealth. tor of a well-known daily paper 



asking me for my " terms for an 

 article on Mr. Chamberlain as Empire-breaker, to 

 be published on his death." I had not realised how 

 imminent in popular opinion was the demise of the 

 member for Birmingham. But if "Mr. Chamberlain 

 were to die, I should be in no mood to repeat the 



flections aroused by his political decease. Even the 

 most ran-orous political opponent must be touched 

 bv the picture presented to the world last month of 

 the lame old man, with half-crippled hand and 

 half-blinded eves, compelled to abandon all his 

 political engagements, and to dodge death by a 

 flight to sunnier climes at the moment when of al' 

 others he ought to have been in his place in the 

 House. For Mr. Chamberlain was a very human 



