NEWS OF THE WEEK.
JACK CADE will never go far in England if you face him. He is, however, the worst man in the world to run away from. We should have thought that this was a principle universally aclolowledged. It does not appear, however, to be known in the offices of the .Daily Mail or the Times. During the week both these papers have shown signs that they favour instead Dogberry's principle. You may call an evil-doer to stand, but if he will not you are " presently to call the watch together and thank God you are rid of a knave." On Wednesday the Times announced that those who were sensitive to public opinion realised that the Budget was becoming more popular, and on Thursday the Daily Mail pOlished cni its, centre page two columns of what almost amounted to 'a panegyric of the Budget. The greater part read like a speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in one of his more chastened moods. We were told of all the wonderful things which are going to be done in the way of home development by the funds provided by the Budget. Everybody, from the out-of-work to the millionaire motorist, is to have a bit, and the country is to break out into an eruption of new roads, forests, labour exchanges, light rail- ways, canals, harbours, and other public improvements. It is true that on Friday the Daily Mail vaguely suggested that the Budget ought to be fought more vigorously, and that Tariff Reform would produce the money quite as well as Mr. Lloyd George's , scheme ; but the dazzling picture of a great national " surprise packet " for every one clearly still holds the field.
