After this remarkable picture of priest-ridden Noncon- formity, Sir Robert
Perks rebuts Mr. Lloyd George's assertion that the Government had done their best for Noncon- formity. On the contrary, he maintains that they have not even done their second best. They have turned a deaf ear to reasonable demands for much-needed reforms in the past, and have given no pledges for the future. " Mr. Lloyd George says that Nonconformity stands at the parting of the ways. It is not the first time in recent years that the Free Churches have stood there. We did so in 1885. Noncon- formity had then to choose between Mr. Gladstone with Irish Home-rule and .Mr. Chamberlain with religious equality. Nonconformity took the former path; and we have lived bitterly to rue the day. For a third time Mr. Asquith now offers the country Home-rule. Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Winston Churchill offer Socialism."
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