At the eleventh hour before the election there was no equivocation.

Germany _should_ pay for the war.

The Kaiser _should_ be tried.

Instead of a great moral appeal, which might have prevented all the disastrous conflicts in industry, and might have preserved the spirit of loyalty which had united the people during the war, the Prime Minister put himself at the head of a disreputable mob calling for revenge.
"One disadvantage of the democratic system," says Mr.Birrell, "is that a Prime Minister no longer feels himself responsible for good government.

He awaits a 'mandate' from a mob who are watching a football match." We have only to compare this order of mind with a mind like Lord Leverhulme's to perceive how it is that politics in our country tend more and more in the American direction.