"The "British Weekly," a religious journal with strong Liberal sympathies, has been celebrating the fortieth anniversary of its first publication and has secured fan article from the pen of Mr. Lloyd George to mark the event. Other contributors look back on the changes which have taken place during the last 40 years but, Jcharacteristically, Mr. Lloyd George indulges in one backward glance Jand then bends his his gaze on the future, He recalls that 40 years ago the Liberal party was rent from top to bottom over Mr. Gladstone's Home Rule bill, That was "the worst defeat inflicted on Liberalism for generations" and its opponents congratulated—themselves that Liberalism, as a force, was extinct. Events proved that this was far from being the case and Mr, Lloyd George takes it as a hopeful augury and believes that despite its present disunited and [disorganized condition the party, which he claims to be the leader, yet destined to guide the tinies of the Empire.
He first deals the Conservative party a shrewd blow by asserting that had the present government in Europe, Our agricultural methods will not bear comparison with those of Denmark or Holland, These are patent facts that are denied by no party but for which no remedy has yet been found, We believe that the majority of. the readers of this paper have no strong political bias. We may hive Teaned to certain political convic" tions before coming out East, but here we are Britons first and last and we care little whether these open sores of our native land are healed by a Liberal, Conservative or Labour Government, s0 longa they are healed. The Social orators loudly claim that they have a panacea for all ills from which the state suffers and they would sum up their proposals in the one word nationalization, Tt had the same nostrum for the solution of the coal strike and the country would have none of it. Not that way, we feel sure, does salvation lie.' And yet the problem must be faced and a solution found, It is true of economic as of physical diseases that prevention is bet ter than cure. Unrest and dis.
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