The air is full of rumours about a General Election.
It seems to be agreed that there shall in any case be an election this year, but the choice lies between an election within the next few weeks and an election in the autumn. Mr. Lloyd George and the Coalition Liberals apparently want an election almost at once, and most Unionists would like to postpone it till the autumn. What we dislike about the whole controversy is that we hear far too little of what would be the best thing for the country and far too much about what would be the most opportune moment in the interests of particular
parties. Coalition Liberals are taking their stand on the argument that an early election would be less distracting than one later, when it is hoped trade may have revived. We fear the Coalition Liberals forget that an election within a few weeks would be made by hundreds of candidates to turn upon the amount of doles to be paid to the unemployed. The absorption of the unemployed by the revival of trade would at least make unnecessary that humiliating and demoralizing appeal, Meanwhile, the Coalition Liberals have announced that they mean to 'hold great meetings towards the end of this month, and it is their evident intention to announce that they are the one and only true Liberal Party. In this way Mr. Lloyd George will find the machinery that' he needs and without which he would be helpless.
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