[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—There are two quotations which seem specially applicable to Mr. Lloyd George's case. The first is from Tennyson's The Grandmother :—
" But soiling another, Annie, will never make oneself clean." The second is the Queen's shrewd criticism in Hamlet "The lady cloth protest too much, methinks."
And the second goes to the root of the matter. Mr. Lloyd George is conscious that the glowing picture of the Christian statesman devoted to the cause of the poor and oppressed, to whom all violence and intemperate speech may be pardoned in consideration of his noble intentions—this picture has been ruined by a gleam of sinister light. The Christian hero, it appears, is not averse from making a little money by what plain people reckon gambling, and the ideal is gone. Not having the dignity of restraint, he gives himself away, and all men see his discomfiture.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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