How literally true was Mr. Asquith's reply to Messrs. Philip Snowden and ©. P. Trevelyan when they expressed the opinion that the time was ripe for a movement towards peace, namely that neither member spoke for the public, is shown by cutting from a home Paper sent us by a correspondent.
"By 35 votes to five Blackburn Town Council yesterday refused to lend the Town Hall for a meeting to be nddressed by Mr. Philip Snowden, senior memder for the borough. Tt was declared that over 90 per cent. of the inhabitants of the town and hundreds of Blackburn men fighting at the front repudiated Mr. Snowden's attitude towards the war. and it waa necessary that the country and the world should know that the town it will also be seen that, the Premier's doubt as to whether the: members named represented their own constituents was well-founded. The decision at Mile-end was mandate to the Government, to push the war to a victorious conclusion. At the great Labour Conference in January a resolution was passed pledging the conference to assist the Government as far as Possible in the successful prose tion of the war by a plurality of nearly three to one, the minority being the opponents of compulsory enlistment. Moreover, the result of the North Louth by-election, published to-day, shows that the Irish support the Nationalist leader's Policy of securing every available recruit for the King's forces. Also it will be remembered that Mr. C. P. Trevelyan has been sternly called on by his constituents et Elland
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