We should like at the same time to draw attention
to another point made by the New Age in connection with the Insurance Bill, namely, the general impression that has been created in the public mind that there is nowhere any opposi- tion to the principles of the Bill. As a matter of fact, those principles are being strongly attacked. "Not only the New Age, but Justice and the Clarion have published articles attacking the Bill in principle. Subsequently the Labour Leader joined in, and its last two issues have contained vigorous criticisms of the bases of the Insurance Bill signed by well-known names. It is simply dishonest to pretend after this that the chorus of praise of the principle of the Bill has been universal." We may add to the list of criticisms a powerful one in this month's issue of the Crusade, the organ of those who support the Minority Report upon the Poor Law. There can be no doubt that supporters of the Bill are endeavouring to help to rush it through Parliament by creating a false impression of its universal popularity.
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