It is not a pleasant thing to use such words
of the second Minister in a British Government. It is even more unpleasant to reflect that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer has placed himself in such a position that he dare not repeat outside Parliament what he says inside. If Mr. Lloyd George likes to let the matter remain where it is, it is his affair and not ours, but we would at any rate remind him that he will not improve his position by the use of such language as he employed in his National Liberal Club speech. What are we to think of a man who uses the phrase quoted above, " Hitting a man when his hands are tied and he cannot bit back—that is the Tory notion of fair play," and is all the while taking advantage of the privilege of Parliament to tie the hands of those he accuses ?
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