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A NEW WORLD."
THE BEST CENTURY. CONFUSED PARTY SPECIFICS" Lord Birkenhead has come forward as a champion of his own time says the Dally AVOIDING THE USPERASANT.
-Telegraph.
Praise of the signteenth cen- tury as a golden age of cool deliberation The following Icttur appears in a recent and sound argument must needs have its isue of The 2747-
sting for our debaters and statemen. It Sir,You have lately, had with good stirred Lord Birkenhead's meek spirit to esuson, laid stress on the necrsity of our retort that he did
in the Fooognising, as a nation, some of the un of the
eighteenth century. any** dazzling pleasinghe realities in the field of ecobrilliance, unless it was in the immere omka dwels upon by the speakers at the and incredible consumption of alcohol conference of the League of Nations Union. We are, indeed, oh unemployment. But is there much to see a Prime
rival the younger. hope at this time of day that any one is Pitt's consumption of
of pore And Fitt at the unpleasant can
can bot himself must here-been a weakling to t
allowed to
or
Mr.
the mee
dodot likely in our
face-shall be admitted 2-
one drank After the war the only possible way of of port at a sitting. The Salvation way that every one should put indeed, cast doubt on this story, potating wok with lesemalament (whether earned up with
d out that
400+
or spearned), work harder, and be
with fewer of the amenities of life, till after
tomb
officer assisted, and
-in
four old BuyWars womethheit the officer t
prosperity was again
liked
one
who
is more speculation and
taking off
But this But this is the que fact that no one will how can we doubt the word of face. The Bonar Law Government, which never pad church without
·EL· at least made some attempt to face in his batt. Yet we would not allow that the was attacked from
theantares of living in
in the eighteenth were merely alcoholic.It was emin ently a comfortable age. A man, as the
every
did not pretend to have a
of
side, because it
for mail a earth.
new bear specie
cen
It being determined that the loss and verse says, could be passing rich on forte damage of the war can, and must be pounds a
charmed.
Ator, in the last, resori,fortably ea a,
by: the
ther
ITC
Jobason knew a clergy- by adroit Irgislation, by man who brought up a
up a large family com stipend of £30. A country aspedient of druvius that gentleman could make a
on £200. figure on two and two make four (as
Prices · were higher as the century wore on tedly did before the wa) the nation till the explosion of the French Revol
political out Greeds of "most partics Bro & gorgeurs nation it was certainly an ask but wa of plenty. medley of mutual incompatibilities Ever This may have been ince 1914 the British people have bean must suppose something was due to good
It
eminently an age
of conducted by their political leaders down management,
na doubt an endless vista of fool's paradises commonsense with the defects, ma This perhaps explains hardly any party makes the
talked, her. of which
when in probable
office to fulfil the
least,
has so lavishly
Opposition, and it seemi
WAS
of that quality Eightchary states
姐姐
not idealists Were Bo
wo fear,
thought but little of the brother.
hood of man and, the world. They
They made, as ration of the
will be bounded into the wilderness with air to add that they fut it in enrol
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Birkenhead that each one in turn, after a brief wel- reminds us, some conspicuous blunders
a matter of taxation, they 32 Iostias come and a kill briefer period of trial,
the American colonies."
Canada and a howl of execration ever growing louder
India. It and more embittered. It also
It was not an adventurous age, Liberals explains
Fet it sent out men like Clire and W and tires only seem
ly sem, definitely anti-Socialistic re
Haatioks and planned the voyages of when they are in Opposition
Captain Cook which and when
gave the in office dabble weakly and ineffectually return to its literature, though we may
tries of the Pacific to British
It in Socialistig expedients; while the
Labour t who are at least consistent, are not find the fruest poetry or the light of
Frock
coun
***Gecialistic in Opponition but do romance, where is there greater humour
is |
not som to be much worse than anybody where is the sounder Enowledge of man else when they come into
and the world, where is there more quiet PORET
good sena than in sometimes tempted to suppose that t
the righteenth-century rate as regards the leaders, the de books. Those things we may do well to marcation line between parties is merely remember, beside our own" dazzlin
distinction and not a difference, or that.
that achievements?
which Lord Birkenhend
捻
we are really governed by a Fabianized proclaims. And perhaps, in the reactions Civil Service, and that it matters less since the war which be confesses and de than the proverbial row of peas what plores we should be none the worse for particular faction adorns the Ministerial some of that cool criticism of enthusinate benckus in the House of Commons,
and charlatans in which the eighteenth century excelled.
MAZE OF CONTRADICTION Que result of this pleasing confusion of aims is that men may approach the citadel of office by diametrically opposite routes. Mr. Winston Churchill row a pears as the great opponent of Socialism, 3t as a meaïbár of the taition Govera.... ment he was jointly responsible for that mase of uneconomio legislation which sur- rendered The whole basis of individualisa He aver made any kind of protest against. confiscatory
death
excess profits tax, cr the Rent Restriction:
perhaps Jon Art-E the most unjust and mi
mischievous measure over put upon the Statuto book Mr. Asquith, by the way has just said that Mr. Wheatley's Rent Bill has for the first time in reduced what he
the
aan iniquitous and invidi
the principle, namely, of directly
ing one class of investors. But this, with all due respect, is, as Euclid would have sud, absurd. The different between Mr. Wheatley's Act and the Rent Restriction At is, after all, only one of degree, and the former is in one serse only the logical outcome of
of the latter.
condemnation The
A been
of the Coalition, is the greater for they sinted spainst the light. The light of
Party
in this matter has always economically speaking, the frankrat most impenetable darkness, Those who to their honour opposed, the Rent Restriction Act and accurately pre dicted the lamentable results that
have followed-Lord Banbury of Southam, for instace, and the small band of orthodox economists are the men to whom no ever listens, who are supposed to be the back numbers of the political world, per haps because they do not parade that
idealism
which, whatever it may he in intention, is too often in reality merely tho pretentious insincerity which catches
votes but ruins nations.
Just imaging the of contradiction into which the pious resolution to avoid the unpleasant has led us Statesmen can not stir a step to realize one promise with out antangling themselves in the wreckage of another. It admitted that a lower ing of taxation is absolutely essential, and ret any conomy that
fee of social N 30120 sacri
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