In reply Lord Crewe declared that "not only land taxers
and land nationalizers, but the Liberal Party and the Labour Party, would regard an attack upon the principle of valuation as a breach of the party truce." We are very sorry that Lord Crewe should have taken this line, for we are sure that it does not represent the facts. What the critics in the Lords were thinking about was how to save money and nothing else. The opponents of the Land Taxes know well enough that those imposts in their present form are as dead as mutton, and that instead of the unburied corpse hurting them it is hurting the cause of the land taxers. If the latter were wage, they would join the economists in a first-class funeraL Then when the war is over they could make a fresh start on sounder lines. For ourselves, we sigh as economists, but are well content as opponents of land taxation.
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