Ministers seldom expose themselves to so well deserved a castigation
as that administered to Mr. Lloyd George in the first leader of the Times on Monday, a propos of the charges which he brought against the Duke of Montrose. As the writer shows, this is no isolated ease, but the habitual practice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He is not only incapable of accurate statement, but his explanations invariably aggra- vate his offence. As Sir John Stirling-Maxwell points out in his letter to Thursday's Times, Mr. Lloyd George began by attributing the purchase of a site by the Cathcart School Board to the Duke of Montrose. When that lie was nailed to the counter he claimed that the facts and figures were what mattered. Now it turns out that Sir John Stirling. Maxwell, from whom the site was purchased, received 22,620 17s. for two and one-third acres, not 23,270 17e. for one and a half acres as stated by Mr. Lloyd George in Glasgow. So that whether persons or facts or figures are in question,
Mr. Lloyd George remains equally, incorrigibly, and impeni- tently inaccurate.
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