THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 277, 3 November 1924, Page 4

THE ENGLISH ELECTIONS.

(To the Editor.) Sir.—With the first and second days’ results of the above I was a little sur prised. I soon got over it, for, like the old woman. I am getting used to it. Sir Campbell’s win. and Mr. Asquith’s first win, for all practical purposes, was as great as the Tory’s present win In many respects it i s a repetition of others elections. > including the two-year-old baby. When it is borne in mind . that men and women under middle age can remember the birth of the Labour Party, the friends of Labour may well shake hands and look forward to the future with confidence. How long is it since the Tory party fought tooth and nail against the abolition of the execution of criminals in public, against national education, and against the opening of picture galleries on Sundays. With regard to the Liberal Party, at any rate the Liberal r- a^i?n^ a^es back to the importation of William of Orange. At the present tune in England the Labour Party has only one. dailv paper for the whole of tho> British Isles. I don’t know the number of papers hostile to Labour, certainly not less than one thousand. Then wo might well ask each other “Are w e downhearted?” What little time the Labour Party was in office with a big majority against them they did some remarkable work. They succeeded in bringing the Frenqh and Germans together so that they are now negotiating trades treaties with one another; and the sweeping of that notorious Tory Poincare out of office and putting Herriot in his place. ]f that gentleman can liold his own in France then English members of th« Labour Party may congratulate themselves on the certainty they helped to bring about that result. When it ia remembered that Gold,, gold, gold, gold Bright and yellow hard and cold, ha 8 been used against the Labour Party without scruple, the friends of Labour might well feel proud of their position in England to-day.—l am etc. JOHN THE PLOUGHMAN. Napier, 3/11/24.