If we strip the incident of the rhetoric and the
personal feeliiig that were engendered and get down into the essential fact, we shall find it to be this : The majority of the Unionist. Party, though somewhat bewildered, as is no wonder, is coming to feel that Mr. Lloyd George must say definitely which aide he is on. That is, whether he is an advanced Liberal or a Conservative and Constitutionalist. If he is a Liberal, as he himself has told us that he is, his place is not at the head of the Unionist Party. If, however, his views are not opposed to those of the majority of the Unionists in any essential point, then his duty is frankly to become a Unionist and to advise his followers to follow his example. By-trudb honesty, by word and deed, we may achieve a homogeneous and united party, organized to maintain the fabric of the Constitution, and to uphold the system of true democracy- i.e., government by the will of the people and not by windy abstrac- tions of political opportunism ; or, again, by carefully manipulated minorities who masquerade as the representative* of the majority.
