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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16703, 11 December 1919, Page 8

Tho Liberals will fool very uncomfortable this morning when they road in tho cqblo news Mr Lloyd George's spooch at the Manchester Reform Club, for Mr Lloyd Goorgo expresses a very decided opinion npon a point of much local interest. 1 Tho continuance of national unity," ho said, "was still aa necessary as during war timo. Party politics, ho was confident, should not yet bo resumed." When tho Reform Party and tho Reform Press expressed tho same opinion and invited tho Liberals, without imposing any conditions whatever, to explore tho prospocts of unity, they were mot with tauntg that culminated in a flat refusal to preservo tho country from a renewal of party warfare. Tho Liberals wero undoubtedly within thoir rights in choosing to servo Sir Joseph Ward's personal ambition and tho old and bittor prejudice of the unprogrcssivo people who are most influential in thoir party, rather than to sorvo tho national interest. But wo may fairly ask that they shall at loost bo courageous enough to face tho publio disapprobation they havo earned. And wo may also reasonably ask thom to considor whether, having 60 emphatically and defiantly preferred party warfaro to national -unity and tho country's interests, they can with any proprioty, in appealing for support for any particular candidate, invoko tho national interest for which they displayod so little regard. How can thoy appoal to a principle they havo themselves scornod and defiedP