In these circumstances we have no hesitation in sayin g that
our duty, and the duty of all moderate men, is to do their utmost to defeat the present Government and their policy. Incendiaries are at work attempting to set fire to the fabric of the Constitution. All honest men ought to join in stopping them, and not stand upon punctilios as to whether a portion of the people who are attempting to extinguish the fire have sound views on political economy. The fire must be put out before we can discuss the best plans for victualling the house and filling the storerooms. Liberals, and there are thousands of them, who know that single-Chamber govern. ment means ruin to the country, who detest the concealed semi-Socialism of the modern Radical, and who feel nothing but loathing and contempt for the Neo-Jacobinism of Mr. Lloyd George and his supporters, will be incurring a terrible responsibility if they give a blank cheque to the party, not of true democracy, but of demagogy, because they are annoyed at what they consider the folly and the stubbornness of the Tariff Reformers.
