Mr. Long ended his speech with a very striking quotation
from a letter which he had received from France from a married man who went before it had become fashionable for married recruits to have grievances and talk about their special sacrifices—a man who feels, in common with perhaps a million other men at the front or in training, that there is, after all, no very great difference between his case and that of those who are now being used by the enemies of the Government. One cannot be blind to the fact that the newspapers and the politicians have taken up tho cause of the married men in the Derby groups, not on the merits, but as a stick with which to beat the Government dog, and especially the "Derby dog." They cannot forgive Lord Derby because he has so loyally stood by the Coalition, and refused to be awed by popular clamour into admitting that a Government which does not obey the orders of the Times and Daily Mail has no right to live. •
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