Mr. Baldwin went on to declare that in order to
fight unemployment Unionists must be able to safeguard the country against unfair competition by utilizing such powers as those provided bythe Safeguardingof Industries Act--an Act which would shortly come to an end. The help for agriculture proposed at the General Election was temporary, and it would be one of the most important tasks of Unionism to devise a practical and permanent agricultural policy. The great enemy of Unionism in the future would be Labour, not Liberalism, which was moribund. Mr. Baldwin dwelt upon the enthusiasm and the success with which representatives of Labour, who believe in their policy, apply themselves to the work of canvassing and propaganda, and conduct elections without payment. "That," he said, "is a spirit which can only be beaten by a similar spirit in our own party." All over the country there were young men who were eager to work with the Unionist Party, if only they felt that it had a sincerity comparable with that of the Labour Party. If the young men who might become Unionists did not feel that, they would drift towards Labour. In the towns the young men were thus drifting at present, and the only thing that could prevent them from continuing to do so was a" live, progressive Unionist Patty."
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