It is questionable if Labour has any more adherents in the country now than it had six months ago. The steady stream of converts from the Liberal Party is discounted by the falling away of disappointed Socialist enthusiasts. The backbone of the Party was its huge army of unpaid and enthusiastic propagand-fists. The Government's poor record of performances has cooled the ardour of the least self-seeking of these and the residue, who are in the Party for what they can make out of it, find it more and more difficult to bide this fact. Labour's chief asset to-day, as it was last January, is the quarrels among its enemies and their apparent inability to realize that tactics are not a satisfactory permanent substitute for principle
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