Jondon, Aug. 19.
Nobody now anticipates any thing but had wint and the e busily warning us of fate. Thus the "Daily ich is never a cheery soul and which resembles too much the Sairy Gamp of economics, particularly when polities are concerned, tells us to-day in headlines of aggressive nature "Growing SIump in. Trade; "Dark outlook in the Woollen Industry;" "Cancelling Orders," and then proceeds elsewhere to remark "Dearer Living;" "Increase now 155 per cent. over 1914," and adds "New Sugar Cards;"' "Shopping Permits to be issued for another 4} months," with on another page "Grave Problem of Unemployment;" "What Dr. Macnamara saw in the East End," and as side lines; "Disastrous Floods in Scotland "Railways Damaged," and "Break in the Weather may do Enormous damage," etc., ete.
Not exactly cheery—when you open your paper and in one single issue find all that little lot, and yet I ani not going to say it is exaggerated. When I go as far as this, I do not pretend to assert that the "Daily News" and most of us would agree as to the causes:
Who makes the quartern loaf and Luddites rise Who fills the butchers shops with large blue flies?
Why," would say the "Daily News," "Lloyd George, of course, and this iniquitous Ministry," which it loves to depict as a donkey with two heads, one at the head and one at the tail, never _knowing which way to turn or what to do. They cannot at least blame him for the weather which, after a fine week or so, broke badly yesterday and drowned the countryside effectively, thereby catching most of the harvest out in the fields. I fear we shall not have very good harvest returns but our luck in weather this year is "dead out;" and, too, bread is going wu) Someone ought to invent 2 sul
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.