30 JULY 1910, Page 2

That is undoubtedly a form less likely to give offence,

and we congratulate the Government upon the change they have made. But what are we to say of men whose deliberate . practice it appears to be only to do sensible things after they have first done foolish things P The Government are again and again proving themselves a Government of second thoughts. No doubt wise men generally do act upon second thoughts ; but wise men also refrain from making their first and immature thoughts public, and from declaring them—till changed—to be their mature and settled convictions.