This means, of course, that Mr. Lloyd George, though his
colleagues have forbidden him to advocate nationalization, desires to dangle it before the eyes of an urban audience who, knowing nothing about the land, and forgetting what nationalization—or, what is for all effective purposes the same thing, municipalization—has done for such enterprises as the tramways, honestly imagine that the State can somehow or other make two blades of grass grow where one grew before. Therefore Mr. Lloyd George's mot d'ordre is : "Hit the landlords briskly on the head and hint nationalization." Meanwhile Mr. Lloyd George was so zealously angry with Lord Lansdowne for daring to have a land policy, a thing which he evidently believes ought to be the monopoly of the Radicals, that in a kind of incoherent way be for once remembered that he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and even slid into a defence of the public credit from the rapacious onslaughts of a revolutionary marquis.
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