Mr. Lloyd George's speech at Aberdeen on Friday week was
quite in his Limehouse manner. The Opposition, he observed, had shown an indecent haste to turn the Government out, not that they were anxious for office or wished to alter the foreign policy of the Government, but in order to have a General Election before their lies about the Insurance Act were found out. "They knew that the people would discover them the moment the Act came into operation, and they thought that they would get the Government out before Christmas." He gave a case of a man who had paid 2s. 8d., and for that sum was receiving sanatorium benefits which would have cost him 221, and proceeded to indulge in one of his inimitable Biblical metaphors. "The priests and the Levites of the Tory Party were not satisfied with passing by; they attacked the Samaritan and said he was the thief, but in a very short time they would be claiming the male and the oil, and would swear that the inn was their idea."
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