great Primrose League gathering at the Albert Hail on Wednesday provided Lord Salisbury with the first opportunity which he has taken for avery long time of delivering a great political platform speech. Apart from a brief reference to the bearing of the South African trouble on the Home Rule q he devoted hiy speech almost entirely to the question of the dangers which menace us in the future and the need of guarding ayainst the first point he said the had taught ux how a disloyal Government can, in spite of all preciutions accumulate munitions of war against us. "We now know better than we did ten years ago," he said, what the risk would be' if we gave to a disloyal Government in Ireland the power of accumulating forces ayainst the sovervignty of the Queen." On the question of the dangers that threaten us from abroad he took a somewhat gloomy "Elements and causes of menace and peril he said "are accumulating, though slowly, ani may accumulate to such a point as to req moot earnest. and active effort te repel them." He declared conscription impossible and urged the Primrose Loazne to encourage voluntary effort, especially by the creation of rifle clubs, He ager the country to plaice itself by such voluntary effort in the position" of an armed nation such a nation as the S or seek their strength, not in brilliant negotiations or military organisation, but in the spirit and preparation of those who loved their country and were prepared to die for it."
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