NEWS OF THE WEEK.
WE have dealt at length elsewhere with Mr. Lloyd George's mischievous speech. Here we must speak of the duty of Parliament and of public opinion in view of this untoward event. Surely they must bold that a man who without any excuse, such as the heat of debate, could make a speech of this sort is not fit to be Prime Minister of this country. The risks run by having at the head of affairs a man capable of such levity, such irresponsibility, such recklessness, such injustice, are beyond endurance. Unless the House of Commons marks its condemna- tion of the speech, and so dismiss' es Mr. Lloyd George, we shall be in hourly peril of national shipwreck. All parties must join to put the vessel and her priceless cargo beyond the roach of Mr. Lloyd George's frantic egotism.
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