On Thursday at Inverness Mr. Bonar Law made one of
the best fighting speeches that even he has ever made. He placed before his audience with extraordinary vigour and cogency the appalling situation into which the country is drift- ing, and showed how great is our danger and how imminent our need for sound guidance. To appreciate its true force the speech must be read as a whole—it will, we treat, he scattered broadcast by the Unionist organizations—hut we may select for special mention the quite admirable passage in which he noticed the protests being made against Government inaction by a section of their own followers, and pointed out to them what they ought to tell the Cabinet "They ought to say that a Government which is not prepared to govern Las no right to exist. They ought to say that if the Govern- ment have not the power to put down lawlessness, there is one course open to them only—to appeal to the people and get the power from them." Mr. Boner Law ended Ms speech by what we are certain was the perfectly sincere declaration that the Opposition were ready and willing at any moment to help the Government to get the country out of the state of deadly peril in which the nation now found itself.
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