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LABOUR "AND TRADE AND HOUSING.

REVOLT FROM FREE TRADE.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}

EDINBURGH. April 9th.

Poor

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OUR GREAT SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

in D unhealthy condition. "And," he added, "it is a country which enght seriously to consider whether it can continue to afford the openings which it previously gave to people who desired to come into it from overseas. What ***demanded

LA PAMQUS PRISON.

The Calton Gaol of Edinburgh, one of the most prominent architectural features of the city, is to be sold by public auc

the first building of tion. The gal

A Scottish night in the Common? for the discussion of our estimates is seldom a lively business, and is rarely noticed by other than Northern readers I may therefore be permitted to direct atten- tion to a speech by Captain Elliot, one of the most successful members of the Government we have possessed of lase years. He made an interesting compari A stranger might traverse the whole of

son betweea the curves of health statis- the West of Scotland without seeing anytics and unemployment figures. Fortu thing which suggested the existence of nately he was able to show that the up- political or social unsettlement. Glasgow ward curve of the former had no relation is a city of great contradictions; itia to the latter. Still it was a depressing the headquarters" of the Wild Mew," picture he sketched. With twenty thou and yet it is a remarkably orderly town, and fewer people in the country at the end of the year than at the beginning. even in the parts where disorder must be with thousands going over sens, with indigenious. Crime has been much re- 181,000 unemployed, with 70,000 able duced since the war. A former Segre bodied on the parish, Scotland was & country where the labour market was tary for Scotland thought it would be certainly necessary to build a second prison; to- day the old one is only half full, Traver sing some of the worst quarters by night and by day, one encounters few signs of misery translating itself into political do you mean by overseas! I mean over- danger. Subdued civility is the note of some Socialist members.

population of whom something like seas, insisted Capt. Elliot without re- sixth must be living on Unemployment or gard to murmurs about. Irishmen.”

The allowances.

typical Labour men in the West are outwardly, C. R. LIDDELL'S MANHOOD CAMPAION. taany of them, tough propositions." " Mr. Eric Liddell, B.Sc., the Scottish argument with them, you find a mixture Rugby Internationalist, champion sprin- of Convenanter and Jacobin. They are ter, and winner of the Olympic 400 metres stout fellows: there are few of them with race last year, is to conduct a manhood in Londer. for the Y.M.C.A. whom one would not "go 'tiger-hunting campaign But benrath the crust they are not only human, but humanist. For the present their attitude to economie questions seems unhelpful enough. With all their influence over the mass of Labour they will not help an increase of production. and they will not further the quickest importance to attract the attention of remedies for horrible housing. Pointing visitors entering the city from the South, to the development of super-machinery it overlooks the Canongate and Holyrood and its super session of man-power, they Park, and is frequently mistaken by The Calton claim that the harder a man works, the strangers for the Castle. faster he is evicting his fellows from a built at a time when architectural effect job. It is useless to suggest to them that was considered of more importance than higher production means cheaper produe-economy, or even the ns a to which a tion and cheaper commodities: that particular building was to be devoted, no cheaper commollities mean A greater longer meets modern ideas of what a margin for the consumer to gratify fresh prison should be. The old gaol has just number of years wants: ad that the gratification of such been "yacated; for, a wants calls fresh industries into exist-there has been a gradant process of

They

are pledged that the transition to the new prison at Saughton, Capitalist system must fall, and they will which looks like anything but a prison. do nothing that seems likely to prolook The new institution is a collection of its respite. So Glasgow Labour follow airy, handsome looking buildings, where gospel that makes Glasgow goods the prisoners have large glazed windowe, dearer to buy, and more dificult to sell, commanding a beautiful view, where the even at the moment when certain of its younger men work together at varicus members have betaken themselves to a crafts-and where, it is said, a prisoner more realist philosophy of foreign trade. sentenced to penal servitude for serious The Faith of Scottish worker in Free wife assault found the peace of environ- Trade is decaying, however, and Labour ment which he had long sought in vain members quite unconnected with the elsewhere. Edinburgh's problema at pre- Clyde have been confessing privately that sent is what to do with the old prison. site they did not see how industry could be it is a landmark. To have the maintained without Protection. But to cleared and unsightly business premises the stalwarts this still appears in the erected thereon would offend not only light of a subsidiary issue. And they aesthetic taste, but the firmly embedded perhaps dread a coalesence with Unionist instinct for the protection of all that is policy, in which more of their leaders old and familiar in the Scottish capital. would be subject to the debilitating in The latest proposal is that the prison fluence of moderate associations. But it should be turned into a hostel on a large is upon the housing question that Labour scale for bachelors; men and women, policy weaves the most vicious circles. under the control. of the Corporation, It stirs up discontent, and proßteers on where the occupants would have their it with political glee. And all this time private rooms or suites "at a reasonably it frightens the private builder away by low, rent, its ao rent campaigns, it condones the leisurely selfishness of the building trades, Peterhead feuars managers have hud and it throws all weight into the obstruc-a heated discussion as to whether cider tion of the steel house or any other rapid or whisky should be offered at a banquet remedy. On general economic questions in connection with the opening of a new these men have locked up their minds bridge. A local poet ventures to smooth Lad thrown away the key. In this spout the difficulty thas--

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cial connection one is sometimes tempted

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Slains Castle, Aberdeenshire. rich in historic memories, has been sold to house-breakers, who will dispose of it 1 in lots suitable to the purchaser." The same firm has also acquired two other The Scottish mansions for demolition. news has naturally been received with I venture to move that in plight such as regret by all lovers of our "stately bones.

Bet it has been evident for some time past that something unpleasant was coming. In multitudes of cases the old owners are incapable of maintaining them, and new owners who can face the drain are not readily found. Specula- tion has toyed with the question of their future, and more than one prophet has declared it their manifest destiny to be. come institutions. hotels. and hydro- pathies. Nobody has predicted that their fate was to be that of the obsolete battleship or cruiser, broken up for the

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