THE VERNACULAR OF BILLINGSGATE.

Evening Star, Issue 14627, 25 July 1911, Page 8

THE VERNACULAR OF BILLINGSGATE.

Mi 1 Maxse. in the 'National Review 1 for May. after speaking of Ministers as tho unblushing gang, who for the time IML-in"; hold -this unforttni.-i.t-a nation and Empire in their traitorous grip, goes, on to say that some of His Majesty's' Ministers cultivate the vernacular of Billingsgate or the bargee. This is very much like Satan reproving sin. Mr Maxso then proceeds to accuse Lord Haklane of playing flunkey to the German Emperor, and denounces his elevation to the peerage as another scandalous job on tJie jwirt of the party of jobbery, snobbery, and robberv.

Mi' Asquith is a parly hack who regards the British Empire as a nuisance. Sir Edward Grey is a sentimental Socialist mid a wishy-washy sentimentalist, obsessed with tho nio.il- dangerous form of political luna<-y. Mj' again is a pigheaded politician, and Mr Lewis Harcotirt it a snake iu the grass. The British Empire is governed by ga.--ba.gs, mountebanks, and traitors. His Majesty's Ministers have become constitutionally incapable •if speaking the truth. Sir Edward (Jrey has gone another " mucker" on the German question. Tho Parliament Bill is nothing loss than an impudent attempt on tho part of tho needy, greedy gang of briefless barristers, speculative solicitors, political adventurers, and renegade Peers who now constitute ''* His Majesty's Ministers" to install themselves in supremo power in perpetuity, and they would resort to any form of low cunning a-nd dirty trick to achieve their purpose. Mr Asquith lias now reached the stafic of preferring dirt to any other form of <liei, a,nd he is only happy when licking Mr Redmond's boots. Mr Asquith has now dearly marked himself off as an unspeakably proiligate politician, an anarchist, a wrecker, a. hypocrite, and an adventurer, prepared to espouse any project which will paw or indeed to do anything which will keep him and his friends in office. (Such men are little better than pirates—they are uiit for loot. Lord Haklane ought, to have taken ihe title of Viscounf H'nmbug, ai ,r i Mr Aiiquith is a. professional trickster; while Mr Balfour is condemned a.s being too lenient, in dealing with educated blackguards—and so forth, and so forth. From which it will he- seen that Mr Maxse ha.s done him--self justice in his attempt to express his detestation of what he cali.s this loathsome coalition of log-rollers.—'Review o'i Reviews.'