Nothing much has emerged from the public meetings which are being held on all sides. Although at Idast 50 Liberals are dependent for their return on Unionist votes, including Mr. Asquith, who has as result put the soft podal on all his anti-Conservative remarks, the ily News" is for war to the knife between Conservatives i€ fought on the Russia will benefit the Conservatives, and so it is making desperate efforts to switch the struggle over to Tariff Reform v. Free Trade. This, of course, is a mare's since' the} Unionist Party is pledged not to introduce a General Tariff, though it will re-establish the MeKenna Duties and the Safeguarding of it has a majority, fact_makes no difference to the "Daily News" which sees that only on a Party plank of this nature has Liberalism any hope. It comes out to-day flat-footedly in favour of Liberal "support to Labour in all Jcases against Conservatism. The article is in leaded type, and it almost looks as if its cocoa proprie-for had written it. Whenever the late Lord Northeliffe wrote anything' himself the type was always heavily leaded, so that you could see it at the distance of about 400 yards, All newspaper proprietors, have this little weakness.
The Russian Agreement The Labour Party claims that the electors like the Russian Treaty. 'We shall see, but if they do it will be the result of an extraordinary campaign of mendacity. Already, didates throughout the country fare saying that, £26,000,000 out of £30,000,000 would be employed in buying' manufactured goods here. Of course, there is not a word of justification for this, but Mr. Mace Donald never denies it and emboldened, his followers rise daily, to greater heights of imagination still, Te is jer for them far to support Russian Treaty the than to explain their inactivity lon unemployment, but this! point they have now frankly Jcome out in favour of Socialism, and if they win there is no doubt whatever that the chief industries of the country will be revolutionized, Although there are about a million and a half unemploy-_ fed in Russin at the present time, and 12 millions starving, with a bankrupt Treasury and g steady of every from despotic and bloodthirsty Govdrn.
the voters here are assured the Millenium.
That ie what they say now, but leven St they were returned we should probably hear them si quite a different tune. No Government on earth could carry out all the promises which wre being made, such as "Pull Work or Full Wages"
Age (Pensions of lat 60 for All", Mothers'. Pensions. "Special 'Compensation and Pensions for all' Persons injured at work". "The! Removal of all Taxation "on the Proletariat" and "No Rent for Unemployed Tenants." These are 2 few of some of the baits offered to the electors, and it is only a question as to whether these are or are not disillusioned by the failure of the 1923 promises to materialise. No one can beat Labour at the game! of promising, the more so as one Minister has just come out and Jannounced: "No Government bound by Election Leaflets."
Mr. Lloyd George is working quite well with the Liberals, although he himself rather abstains }from unnecessarily violent attacks jon, the Conservatives, principally] Jbedause he knows that they fare hholping his friends. and standing, in. Carnarvon' Boroughs!
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