A possibility seems to have arises, politicians may have to consider seriously the demand for Scottish Home Rule. For a gencration or so it has been more or less 'a standing joke, a perennial threat to Parliament that unless more than a day at the end of the session were devoted to Scottish affairs, it would become practical polities. The position reached its climax when half a dozen people approached President Wilson at Versailles with the request that he should do something about it, but now serious people No less a those is making the demand, and in doing s0 he prophesied that Mr. Baldwin would be the last English litician to be Lord Rector of largo. His demand is seconded by Mr. Cunninghame tirahame who at the meeting in question declared frked why" 4,000,000" seven of, the Highlands" should be "delivered The answer to Mr.
Cunninghame Grahame would seem to be one ap. pealing to the hardheadedness of the Scots, that the only chance the inhabitants of these acres get of being debauched is by the same: dollars, and were it not for this and other align money a great many of the people in the Highlands of China's troubles to-day are due to experiments in new and alien modes and whatever points. to her getting back to what is native and congenial to herself. is to be welcomed. Perhaps the temples are not quite all they should be, but they are not so bad as bandits and overgrown armies and they are certainly, picturesque, a quality deserving. of respect in this age of the worship, not only in China, of ugliness and materialism.
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