It is useless, however, to start recriminations in the present
deplorable circumstances. What matters is to decide upon a plan of action. We are very strongly of opinion that if Mr. Lloyd George persists iirblit*esent course, and requires a purge of the Unionist Party to suit his own views, he ought to be very stoutly resisted. If he represents the issue as being one between himself and Sir George Younger, asking the Unionist Party to decide which of them is the more valuable, we hold that the Unionist Party should choose Sir George Younger. We do not say this in the least because we mean seriously to compare the statesmanship of Sir George Younger with that of Mr. Lloyd George, or because we actually want to see Mr. Lloyd George disappear at the present moment, but because we regard the whole question as one of principle for Unionists. They now have the question of their own life or death in their hands.
