Turning to unemployment, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald did not give any
idea of how he intends to deal with it beyond saying that his government would produce "a scientific scheme." He made a considerable point of the housing problem, and drew harrowing pictures of over- crowding, dirt and deprivation. If trusts and monopolies weie found to be standing in the way, the Labour Party would mast them. Mr. MacDonald's peroration reminded us curiously of some of the visions of Mr. Lloyd George :— "The shield of love and the spear of justice will still be in the hands of good and upright men and women, and the ideal of a great future will still be in front of our people. I see no end, thank God, to those things. I see my own horizon. I see my own sky-line, but I am convinced that when my children or my children's children get there, there will be another sky-line, another horizon, another dawning, another glorious beckoning from Heaven itself."
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