"WHAT ABOUT MARCONIS ? "
[To Tee EDITOR or roe nfirrermos.1 Six,—In your editorial remarks in last week's Spectator you refer to Mr. Lloyd George's meeting in Glasgow, and to the very natural request, " What about Marconie P " Mr. Lloyd George seems to have lost his temper, and insinuated that anyone asking such a question must have been admitted to the meeting by a forged ticket. To prove this was false I beg to enclose a letter taken from the Glasgow Herald, written by the party who had made the exclamation, repudiating most emphatically such an insinuation. I do not suppose Mr. Lloyd George will aeoept the challenge made by the writer of the letter, but you may think it worth while to publish it all the
same—I am, Sir, Ac.,
175 West George Street, Glasgow.
FREDERICK R. Mora.
"Sni,—With reference to the accountin your most excellent paper of the interruption at Mr. Lloyd George's meeting in Glasgow— `What about Marconis?' Mr. Lloyd George's reply was—`The fewer taunts of those who came in with forged tickets the better.' Now, Sir, my friend and myself are lifelong Liberals, and we got our tickets by ballot. There is no question whatever about them; they were not forgeries. We still have them in our possession, and have to-clay exhibited them to a gentleman of undoubted standing in Glasgow, who authorise., us to say that he is prepared to forfeit £5 if the tickets are not genuine, if Mr. Lloyd George or one of his supporters will do the same, to be given to a Glasgow infirmary. I have been brought up to believe that the watchword of Liberalism was 'Freedom,' and when I drew Mr. Lloyd George's attention to the unsatisfactory way in which he, as a Cabinet Minister, came out of the Marconi business, I was roughly handled by an angry crowd, some of my fellow-citizens cried
Kill him, kick him,' while my mouth was stuffed by half a dozen. riveters who were distributed all over the hall whom no man had a chance of expressing this `freedom' which Mr. Lloyd George is so fond of talking about, but of which we working men see so little. I await Mr. Lloyd George's acceptance of this offer, when I will at once produce my ticket of admission to the secre- tary of the Liberal Association in Glasgow.—I am, Ac.,
- TITROWN OUT Or TIES DISICTIN0."
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