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We are unfeignedly glad that the kerosene duty has disappeared.

We pointed out last 'week that it was a regrettable burden: upon the 'household expenditure of the poorest cottagers. Throughout the countryside kernseiteili -the 'cannier,: illilniiriailt, and in -recent yediS it has become increasingly the fuel of the kitchen. With -what face could Unionists have argued to their con- stituents that it was right that the country labourer's weekly. budget should be raised by two or three shillings in . order that great manufacturing industries in the towns _might be relieved ? The thing would not bear talking about. But now that the mistake has been corrected it is a bearable reproach to be told that UnionistS have bought off the opposition of innumerable voters by an unabashed surrender.

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