It is suggested in some quarters that we are engaging
in disgusting personalities and raking into the question of people's private business, while others, like the Westminster Gazette, resent as if it were an outrage being asked to comment upon the action of "Liberal newspapers." And here let us say that we have made no attack upon "Liberal newspapers." Liberal newspapers have been no more attacked by us for publishing betting tips than have Unionist newspapers. To have done that would have been most unfair. The ordinary Liberal newspaper proprietors have just as good a right as their Unionist contemporaries to do what they do. Our point was a perfectly different one : that no man can without demoralisation speak with two voices,—condemn betting with one voice and incite to betting with the other. That is a hopeless position, and one in regard to which we cannot keep silence. As a proof that our campaign is not directed against Liberal newspapers as such we may note the fact that we have had practically no support from the Unionist Press. If they thought there was a party issue at stake they would, we may feel pretty sure, not keep silent.
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