6 NOVEMBER 1909, Page 18

That there are a certain number of genuine unemployed owing

to changes of trade, such, for example, as the -substitution of taxi-cabs for hansoms, we of course admit; but the great bulk of the unemployed have been brought into -existence by the pauperising policy of the State, and by our having made it clear that if men have not the hardihood to get work for themselves; they will not be allowed to suffer, will not even have to undergo the humiliation of -accepting ordinary poor relief. Even if We aissitine that Tariff R-eferni will stimulate trade, it will not give employment to those' WhOra we have encouraged to render themselves unemployable. The Tariff Reformers, by their promises in this respect, are preparing a most dangerous reaction.