13 JULY 1918, Page 3

In the House of Commons on Wednesday a resolution was

passed condemning the principle of associating war pensions with political parties. Sir Montague Barlow, who brought forward the resolution, is to be congratulated on the energy with which he has kept this question before the public. To have pensions turned into the cur- rency of party warfare, each party making its appeal to the electors on the ground that it would get better pensions for its supporters than any other party, would lead to a system of corruption appalling to contemplate. One would have thought that the American pensions scandal, which has haunted the political life of the United States ever since the Civil War, would have been a lesson to all other countries to avoid such things.