'Although a Pensions Bureau has been established by the Liberal
Party, we have no assurance that it will be abolished. The MancliesterGuardian, which has very great influence with the Liberal Party, protests, we are glad to see, against the existence of this organization, but seems to think that it may continue. We wish that the Manchester Guardian would use all its strength to bring about its destruction. We believe that it would succeed. Nothing could be more cynical than the tone of the Manchester Guardian's London political correspondent, who wrote in the paper on May Nth:— " The Liberal Pensions Bureau, over which Mr. Hogge presides, is a highly efficient organization and it will go on. Either the Unionist and the Labour Parties will have to imitate it or the Liberal Party will have this advantage to themselves. It is, one fears, too late to talk about pensions not being a party or political matter, and the party that tackles the question most efficiently in the interests of the beneficiaries may have a very strong pull in politics in the future. We may like it or not like it, but that is the reality."
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