Instead of setting itself to create more wealth, with the wealth of the world lying at its feet, it sets itself to dry up the sources of wealth at the centre of the empire.

But it is no use talking.

One thing a Government in this country cannot stand is imagination; and another is courage.

The British Empire is in the hands of a lot of clerks--and timid clerks at that.

We must do our best to get along without statesmanship at the head.
The reader may not remember that some years before Mr.Lloyd George plunged into a disordered series of social reforms, Lord Leverhulme, sitting in the House of Commons, introduced Bills of a reasonable and connected character to ensure workmen against unemployment and to set up a system of old age pensions.