To sum up these general remarks (xi the opening of
Parlia- ment, we cannot help exclaiming : " If words were deeds. What a glorious country this would be with such a Prime Minister ! " But, alas ! the political rainbow, the most re- splendently coloured thing in the world, is always in the next field, and we run panting after it from hedge to ditch with our smiling Prime Minister barely in front of us, and indeed often being pushed on from behind. Before long if we go on in this way with our heads in the air we shall come to a ditch into which we shall all falL For our part, we look for warning and good sense to the Unionist Party, and we think its oppor- tunity has come. Those who had begun to despair of pene- trating the clouds which veil Unionist policy in these days may take great encouragement from the stoutness and opportuneness with which the Executive Committee of the National Unionist Association have repudiated Mr. Lloyd George's Manchester speech—the speech of Mr. Facing-both-ways. There are plenty of Unionists left who recognize that you cannot convince anybody by rehearsing a creed for everybody. Let them, as the Americans say, get together.
