ANTI-SOCIALISM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 28, 28 October 1907, Page 5

ANTI-SOCIALISM.

: COMMON; GROUND 1 FOR LIBERALS AND i' ; V : ' v, ''i/i : CONSERVATIVES.' : ' ' : "'' ; ■■■.■H ,, i.Y-.!- -::>■'* aA -.■». .-..■■■■ ■', ,|-. ■„ . ■■ ■-:-.:.:< BY ! TEtEOEAPD—PEESS:. ASSOCIATION^COPYEIGHT.' '. ■■■-.""'''• "■"•"■,_•■ ■••• Lpntloh,' Octobbr"2s. ." ■ At a; conference of leading. Consbrvativ.eE :and sey'enty-'aiiti-. Socialist societies, held' in Oaiten Hall, Lon; dpn, a ./central ccnsultative. cpmmittee was .formed,."tb'icombat ,^, ..,,,,. ~'"'. " THE ; COMING ; THu/l)' PAETT. ' : ■ ] ,i : _Seyeral C.onserratiyes .hayp lately. ■ appealed for a ..non-party aiiti-ij.oeialism movement, inclutlirig" ■ L'ord' 'Balfbu'r; of'-' Diirlciglii 'Tlio'' following i • recent : '' speeches by ■ Conservative <or Unjpnist: members'oi'. : thp,llousti..of. Commons E.hpw the trend'..of feolirig ,in. their ranks to-' wards : rccent : 'Socialistic successes':—' 1 v f \■'■• ■'.Mr. ;'Bdnar Law.(tariff reformer'Daid that thoy could,not.lb6k!at,,tlieiresult of,,tho recent by-. :,61ccfioiis\witli6ut' feeling" that it was' uu- '■ dbubtcilly ; tfue:,that" the;' Government 'was 'losing credit I .'with the.country. withuriusuaLrapidity. But', this, also,,was. true, that what, they hod aostr r thb s UnWHi«fsfWre > 'H6tl lf g'di'hiifg'in' ; the same degree.''The'ris6 ! 6f ,, th<! th'ird''party, if he might so speak of tho .Socialist party, was one of tho raosf""Striktn"g p alarming, features of the present situation; .It was more alarming l tq'theif.bpppnehts''than to the Unionists. The Government had' done moro than any.other which-had evof existed to forward the progress. :of socialistic and extremo ideas of feverjr kind! . Though'they (lid. notv'call-th'ean--selyes.Socialists,;they,had;always' been dragged at the; tail, of the .extreme"men. of. their'lown ■party;'"- and the' '■ result', was that they had harasse'aV;,eyery' trade,, threatened: • every iindustry, and- interfered ...with■ oyery institution in. the couhtr'y. •'Every 'class of security 'and investment had fallen as if' thoro'.was':no--bottom -to it. '- . .'.,,■ . V ■:.-■ ' " ' .. - : 'Mi , ; Ti'.'E. , Smith, speaking^'at Liverpool, rdiseussihg) tho ,■ political.aituatibn,, said; .thci.cphllict, of the, future-Would,be ; botwten Liberals, Conservatives,'. and Socialists. There'was" in this no prpsnbet mbre ; :disquieting.'for'- tho Liberal rarty, for ho know of.no mat in England which the' Liberal Whip's dare challenge and say it was "safe. The Liberal party were bleeding at 'both onds, and .did not know whether they' would;bo', defeated by Socialists or "Conservatives:" -Nobody contemplated with satisfaction' the. victory pf•■revolutionary Socialism, biit it was evident th.-it at no distant date there would be a.comploto :readjustmorit in .'English politics. Mr.'Rutherford, speaking lit tho saime gathering, insisted on the XJnionist party putting -forward * definite proposals for ameliorating. Social, conditions. .. In ;/his opinion, the prenent Government would go out of'office sooner;/ than',was,' anticipated.:' At least half of thtj"Kadi?als below: tho gangway and three-fourths of tho Labour • party were Socialists^-.aritl , spmd day) co-operating-against th(M ; :Govornm'eht,'would, defeat it.: -: ' -~. :,. ;