lamentably, is now paying for its failure, and it doesn't matter very much who leads its pitiful remnant.

The Trade Unions, too, like the Liberal Party, must pay for their failure. They chose to make war upon the nation; they attempted to blackmail the majority into obeying their commands. It is no excuse for them to say that if they had succeeded in their infamy they would, by the way, have starved themselves and their families also. We must not make too large a demand upon their intelligence. But they failed, and it is the bounden duty of the country to see to it that the foolishness of a General Strike shall never be repeated. The Trade Unions were placed by the Liberals above the law, and they used their privileges as they might have been expected to use them. As Mr Baldwin said at Chippenham, "the temptation that the growth of these vast organisations, in many respects. as they were to-day outside the law, controlling multitudes of men and large sums of money

their policy, or lack of policy. And Liberalism, having failed For the British Empire they had never any love. They disliked the burden of responsibility. They hated with a wild fury the thought of Colonial Preference. In Mr Churchill's phrase, they bolted and barred the door of sound British oak against their own folk overseas, who desired nothing better than to increase the prosperity of the mother country, and to tighten the bonds which bound them to the land of their origin. Above all, the distance which separates what the Liberals did and what they said they would do was immeasurable. They had always a love of large words and lofty aspirations. But they were weak in action, and when they came to a crisis, they paid as dearly for their large words as for their lack of strength. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Great War came at the end of eight years triumphant Liberalism. As Al Carthill says in his Legacy of Liberalism': "The Liberal professors may be tested by the simple test: Did you do what you promised to do? You promised to establish the age of reason. You promised to make men free. You promised to abolish war. You promised that you would so guide man that he should enter into his true inheritance, the Kingdom of God upon earth. But you have done none of these things." Ultimately in this world even politicians must pay for their failures.

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the temptation to set such a machine in motion and make people follow it was great indeed." Truly it is great, and the leaders of the Trade Unions have gladly yielded to it. They have built up for themselves vast autocracies, existing no longer for the working men, but for the ambitious leaders themselves, who make no scruple of using them for their

own political ends.
autocracies abroad we have a
bitter experience, and we have
managed to defeat them. Now
it is our business to check their
growth, and to make them
innocuous, when we find them
in our midst. For, as Mr Bald-
win went on to explain at
Chippenham, "the problems at
home were not unlike the prob-
lems of the world outside. The
world outside has realised what
an unspeakable thing war is.
They realise that so long as
there are great armaments there
is risk of war. To meet that
risk the League of Nations has
been established. Disarmament
conferences are now being held
and nations meeting together
to devise other methods of
settling age-long quarrels than
by the arbitrament of the
sword."

Of such Unions, which are destroying themselves without it. They are not fit to exercise the licence which was wantonly given them by the Liberals. They must be checked henceforth by legislation, not vindictive but just. The Trades Disputes Act must be modified, if not repealed. The leaders of the unions must understand that they are servants, not masters. They must cease to believe themselves a separate privileged class outside the community. They must not call out the members of their unions at their mere caprice and without a ballot. They must not levy a political tax upon all working men, whatever their political opinions may be. The unions must be liable for torts, as heretofore, and an end must be put to picketing, peaceful or otherwise. We shall then become once more a peaceful and united nation, whose object it is to work and prosper in the world, and not to foster that classhatred which, if it continue, will ruin us all.

We must do at home for the two or more nations which inhabit this island what they attempt to do at Geneva for the nations of Europe. And first of all we must bring within the law again the Trade

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