Are we to be glad or sorry that the attempt to carry on a Labour Government by aid of Liberal rein-foreement has at last broken down Jand that the country is to be given 'a new opportunity of declaring ite self? At this distance it is hard to toll, The best thing that could happen to Great Britain and the British Empire would be half-dozen years of steady Conservative Government. But whether the Conservatives can put that fact con-Vineingly. to the electors, whether indeed they have a constructive Policy which answers the country's heeds and can easily be understood by the average voter, is. another it. "They have certainly had cause to prepare themselves, even without the Campbell aff has Been evident for some time that the Liberals were growing as restive behind the chariot of Labour, as Labour was openly contemptuous of the Liberals. The alliance could hardly have lasted very much longer. We do not yet know the rights and wrongs of the Campbell prosecution. Biach reported of what the Government (din its defence, very little of what Sir Robert Home in criticism. It looks like a bad ease and Mr, Ramsay MacDonald's pi that he did mot want unduly. to advertise the Communists. strikes|{ tone as exceedingly thin. Would he have' a. burglar' not brought to trial, because it might encourage others to rob people's houses? By all one can hear, the Communists in Britain need little advertisement and they certainly need suppression. On this and on the Russian Treaty, Which "no. paper has had a good word for except "papers of the stamp of the "Daily Herald," the Conservatives have a good ground of attack. Another point in, their favour is the Labour Party's rejection of Communists who are neither to be endorsed as candidates by the Labour Party nor even mitted to its membership. This decision is bound to lead to a split vote in_some constituencies. But the Conservatives will nat get a majority merely by attacking. They must show a constructive' programme to prove that they are the _working-man's best. friend, which is the true tradition of thei party. In respect: of what may be termed the psychological factors, the incessant recurrence of strikes in recent months should bring over good many votes to the Conser-votives. We have not heard much of them out here but by all accounts one strike is not over before an other begins. The irritation caused to the general public will certainly tell against Br. MacDonald's party.
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