We cannot part from Mr. Lloyd George without noticing the
speech at the evening meeting, which he devoted to defending golf courses and to showing what a thoroughly legitimate use is made of the land upon which they are laid out. With a zeal and thoroughness which gave a delicious touch of humour to his words, Mr. Lloyd George trotted out all the old arguments, many of them perfectly sound, always employed by the defenders of deer forests. The land was no good for anything else—it was being put to its best possible use in affording recreation for tired people. Golf courses employed a number of people to prepare the links, and still more to keep them going, and therefore increased enormously the wealth, health, and happi- ness of the districts in which they were situated, and so on, and so on, and so on. We can only add: " Owners of deer forests, please copy." Their case has at last been put by a master of political dialectic. They have only got to substitute " deer forests " for "golf courses." We must not forget, how- ever, that Mr. Lloyd George's eagle eye has detected this little difficulty. He meets it frankly and boldly, like the girl with the baby—" It was a very little one." Golf courses are very small: deer forests are very big.
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