"Call you this Backing your Friends?"

(By a Confused Conservative.)

To stave off Change, and check the loud Rad Rough rage,

Conservatism is as shield and fetter meant;

And now brave BALFOUR votes for Female Suffrage;

And RITCHIE tells us he approves of "Betterment"!

O valiant WESTMINSTER, O warlike WEMYSS,

Is this to be the end of all our dreams?