We have dealt at length elsewhere on the situation in
which the Liberal party finds itself, and will only say here that the result of the Liberal meeting has not really been satisfactory, either from a party or from a national point of view. Nominally a new peace has been proclaimed, and everybody has said that Liberals ought not to quarrel among themselves, but nothing has really been changed. In the background of reality behind all the talk and cant there remains the old personal feud between Sir William Harcourt and Lord Rose- bery, which has poisoned the Liberal party. The two men are as bitterly hostile as ever, and the henchmen of either statesman are as active as ever in trying to finally ruin the rival chief. Till that rivalry is somehow put an end to there will be no real peace in the party, and no loyalty of the kind which is the antiseptic of party can possibly grow up.
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