THE NATIONAL.
The National Review in its editorial notes strongly repudiates the idea of a Conservative-Liberal coalition against Labour. "Privy Councillor," enforcing this view, declares that the Conservative Party must refuse all alliances—though it might join the Liberals for the purpose of introducing Propor- tional Representation ; he foresees the speedy break-up of the Liberal Party, when some of its members will follow Lord Haldane Into the Labour Party, while the moderate men will come over to the Conservatives. Mr. Arthur Kitson inveighs against "Our Invisible Rulers," whom lie describes as pro-German capitalists ; while Mr. Adolphe Smith exposes what he believes to be a "German Plot to Utilize the Labour Party," which is bound by its delegates at the Hamburg Congress of last May to obey the decrees of the Labour and Socialist International. Mr. W. Barnard Faraday, in a useful article, explains very clearly the working of the Safe- guarding of Industries Act and the defects of its cumbrous procedure. He states that the Act saved the British alumi- nium industry from extinction, and he urges that the maximum duty should be raised to 66i per cent. ad valorem, in view of
the state of the European eitehanges. We would call special attention to a weighty article on Foot and Mouth Disease," by Dr. M. J. Rowlands, the President of the Pig Breeders' Scientific Society. His denunciation of the helpless and hopeless attitude adopted by the Ministry of Agriculture seems to call for some reply. The mere layman who knows what has been done by men of science to deal with malaria, blackwater fever and even plague cannot but feel doubtful when the Ministry virtually declares that nothing can avail to check this cattle disease except the wholesale slaughter of all affected animals. Isolation, Dr. Rowlands affirms, is often effective, and cure is in no way impossible.
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