As individualists we have great sympathy with the view that
has been put forward increasingly lately, that all the trouble is due to State interference. Sir Hugh Bell has urged it in a letter to the Times, and we believe that each sentence, taken by itself, is economically sound. In the same way we cannot controvert the wording of a pious resolution of the Chamber of Shipping which has reached us, condemning the Mining Industry Bill on the same grounds. The mine-owners have naturally made it their continuous grumble. But after three months of stoppage is it conceivable that the country will go back to a policy of laisser faire ? If not, we must make the best of what the country will accept, and we believe that the Report, with all the " interference" entailed, is the best ground for all to meet upon.
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