As an extreme evidence of this change of feeling we
may point to what took place in Wales last Saturday at the opening of the village institute presented by Mr. Lloyd George to Llanystumdwy. After the ceremony Mr. Lloyd George addressed an open-air meeting attended by four or five thousand people. An appeal had been issued some days earlier by the local branch of the Union of Women's Suffrage Societies to the Women's Social and Political Union to abstain from provocative action, but it was disregarded, and several women interrupted the speech. They were removed by policemen, who appear to have done their best to protect them, and Mr. Lloyd George himself repeatedly appealed to the crowd not to do them any harm whatever happened. Unhappily the temper of the meeting was thoroughly roused, and the process of removal was attended by great and cowardly brutality on the part of the bystanders.
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