We are sorry to hear that the recent increase of
fares on the Southern railways does not pay. The weekly receipts on most of the lines have actually fallen off, and there is therefore little hope that the Northern, and Eastern, and Western Railways will follow the example, and so rouse all England to demand the abolition of the Railway oligarchy. It is a pity, for already large public ineetinga were being held in the Southern suburbs, at which this resolution was carried unanimously :—" In the forthcoming Parliamentary elections no support should be given to any candidate who will not pledge himself to advocate Government control in the working of the railways and regulation of fares, and oppose railway oppres- sion in every form." We trust the towns not affected will help us, and, just to make a beginning, turn out Messrs. Laing and Watkin, while every town in the South should ask as its first question to every candidate whether the Railway supports him. If it does, he is pro Santo presumably a bad one.
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