The Archive · 1907

THE RED. PERIL

Come Valle ing within a ight of Jarrow, has aroused a alarm not only strength Pete Curran the victor of Jarrow, avowed Socialist, but he did He was careful to exp Inbenur vot 8 and would vet Lal ar Party in hand Mr. yot Come Valley n his not even have the nficial support of the Independent Party ~The first fire wprech tale after" hiv "yen that this epoch jon it is clear that the subject will not be allowed to drop. It is certainly not very creditable to the min that the purchase of titles hax vached such w pitch that there ix now nearvely a pretence of secrecy about it: and those who are raising the question are not likely to be deterred by: the consideration that the Liberal Party, to whom most of them belong, would protion of this corrupt aystem. were not for the wealthy Liberal who ives thousands for a peerage and then turns Tory as soon as he has been a little ein the Upper House, there would be mach greater difficalty the necessary funds for party organization, The Unionists, being " much wealthier party, would have less diffieulty in getting money in any cirewmstances and, therefore, althonh they too would be hard hit, they would not feel it so much as their opponents.

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