In his New Reform Club speech, Mr. Lloyd George enumerated
some of the conditions of post-War England : " Insufficient nourishment, bad housing, lack of due care for health, lack of the essentials of a healthy exist- ence, inadequate leisure." " Men have a right to the essentials of civilized existence." All this was leading up to Liberal Reunion, and what Liberalism would do for the country. This is not the first time Mr. Lloyd George has made these promises, and he curiously fails to see that the absence of their fulfilment requires some explanation, and that by merely repeating the promises, each time in a more seductive form, he risks being compared to the child who cried "Fire!" so often that the men with the hose-pipes grew tired of needless expeditions to her house. Some better evidence of a prospect of carrying out his propositions is required than these picturesque reiterations.
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