No impartial observer of the political situation at home can
fail to feel that it is unsatisfactory, nay, dangerous in a high degree. This is specially the case in regard to the internal con- dition of both parties. In spite of the great mechanical majority which pursues its course like some huge steam-roller, guided and controlled by blind men, and brought by them to the very edge of a precipice, the Liberal Party is in a state verging on distraction. This distraction is due very largely to the Jacobinism of Mr. Lloyd George (as shown in the Limehouse speech) and of Mr. Winston Churchill. Curiously enough, the Limehouse speech seems to have caused quite as much resentment among thoughtful Radicals as among more moderate men. The letter which appears first in our corre- spondence columns is a symptom of what is going on.
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