A LABOUR GOVERNMENT.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sie,—One important factor has been overlooked in the discus- sion on this subject. Apart from the Law Officers, and such political adventurers and cast-offs from other parties as might jockey themselves into a Labour Government, the personnel of the Ministers would be confined to those of their class who had not the ability to rise above the status of the professional speaker and negotiator. General Sir William Robertson rose from the ranks to be Chief of the Imperial General Staff, having been Commandant of the Staff College, an unparalleled achievement. I am not aware that the Labour leaders have ever congratulated Sir William Robertson or their own class on this achievement. The working man of exceptional ability and character succeeds as automatically as the corresponding man in any other class. He has to become a capitalist whether he likes it or not, and in so doing he is disqualified for the position of Labour leader. Therefore a Labour Government would consist of men whose mediocre ability had been estab- lished, and whose training as professional speakers and nego- tiators had quite unfitted them for the supremely difficult art of sound administration.—I am, Sir, &c., PERCY Cann.
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