Once more we must remind our readers that nine months
ago, when Lord Fisher was just as much a necessary man as he is now, Colonel Churchill was not only willing to fling him over, but in effect insisted that he must go. Now, without giving any reason for his change that will hold water, he finds Lord Fisher indispensable I The greatest of British satirists, after noting similar vagaries in the subject of one of his invectives, asks the pertinent question : "Say what can cause such impotence of mind ? " As far as we can see, there is only one explanation of Colonel Churchill's conduct. He wants to destroy the Ministry in order to get back to place and power. He believes that opinion in the country is in favour of putting back" Jacky," as the gutter newspapers have it. Therefore, oblivious of what he said only last summer, he planks down his wretched gambler's last five-franc-piece upon "Jacky." A more desperate, a more ignoble attempt to retrieve a ruined reputation cannot be found in our political history. The most case-hardened of party politicians and intriguers in the most demoralized epoch of the eighteenth century would have recoiled from such a manceuvre.
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