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which frequently succeeds in inflicting him upon Parliament. 

 There he becomes a power in the land because he knows all 

 about everything without question. He is ready to meet every 

 argument in an instant. Where he does not hurl principles, he 

 throws statistics ; but his self-confidence generally conquers 

 without a blow. 



The Tory is just now in the ascendant because he can always 

 say, " I told you so " regarding the German attack. But the 

 Radical still carries off his amazing mistakes with the same old 

 confidence. We have had the pleasure of listening to many 

 explanations. The reason why the Radicals did not attend to 

 the advice of Lord Roberts was that it was given in too haughty 

 and military a tone ; the country does not like the " confound- 

 it-sir " attitude so familiar in soldiers. After all, it was fortu- 

 nate that the country did not take Lord Roberts's advice, 

 because, had it done so, the Germans would have attacked us 

 immediately. How were we so blind as not to see the menace 

 of the Germany Navy ? Pish ! The Germans were not build- 

 ing their navy to attack Britain, but to attack Brazil, and it 

 was only Lord Roberts's folly that diverted their attention to 

 this country. By whose folly was it that the Sinn Feiners 

 rebelled ? Why, the folly of the Tories, of course. Why did 

 the Turks and Bulgarians come in against us ? Because, of 

 course, they had been goaded to desperation by the Harmsworth 

 Press. But the last argument we have heard was the most 

 amazing, namely that our armies have done magnificently 

 because not a single one of them (except the one in Mesopotamia) 

 has been wholly captured by the enemy, as happened to the 

 French at Sedan ! The way that the British have managed 

 the war from the beginning has been fine. Prepared for every- 

 thing, we struck at the right moment. Our so-called oligarchy 

 reduced the army simply in order to show the world how 

 splendidly our young untrained men would come forward in 

 the hour of need. As for Zeppelins, let them do their worst ! 



Undoubtedly Mr. Suttonly Such is a strong man. He is 

 a teetotaller, and generally an anti-vivisectionist, an anti- 

 vaccinationist, a pacifist, a non-compulsionist, a free trader, 

 and a free talker. Indeed the word " free " has for him 

 the fascination that a candle has for the moth — it is the 

 point which attracts all his convictions. Other words which 

 he enjoys are " right " and " rights." He thinks that the 



