Speaking at a Liberal demonstration in the New Forest theotherday Mr. Lloyd George, who has scarcely modified his exuberant platform manners since the responsibilities of officer were imposed on him, declared that although the present Government had only been in office eighteen mouths it had already done more legislative work than any Parliament that had ever existed in this That is his boastful retort to who accuse the Government of mighty promises and small performances. Certainly' several of the far reaching measures set forth in the King's Speech at the opening of Parliament this year have not seen the light. Even Mr. Lloyd George cannot deny that he and his colleagues. promised too much; but when his boast has been daly discounted it will remain true that if all the measures now being forced through by means of the guillotine are placed on the Statute Book, the legislative achievements of the Session will be great as regards quantity, whatever divergent views may be held ax regards the quality. It will include, in addition to the Anny Bill, separate Small Holdings Bills for England and Scotland, Evicted Tenants Bill for Ireland, a Bill establishing a Court of Criminal Appeal and a host of minor measures which Mr. Lloyd George urged his hearers not to despise for their smallness, since they were "fall of blessing for the people."
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