It is not necessary to dwell upon Mr. Asquith's short
and felicitously expressed speech. It contained some rhetorical allusions to the citadel of Free-trade—the citadel at whose gates Sir John Brunner had just placed his bag of dynamite— but the operative part of the address, as lawyers say, was a declaration in regard to "the organised treatment of the problems connected with childhood and old age." "I earnestly trust, and I believe, that before another week is over we shall have taken at any rate the first step towards dealing with one, and perhaps the most urgent, of these problems." Mr. Asquith is quite right to think of the children, but has it never occurred to him that one of the best ways of helping them is to free from heavy taxation what all medical men now regard as one of the most important articles of children's diet ?
