22 DECEMBER 1923, Page 1

We have written in our leading columns on Mini- sterial

prospects and what in the circumstances the Labour Party can expect and have a right to expect. We do not, however, want our readers to suppose that we have the slightest sympathy for those who would treat the Labour leaders as a kind of political lepers who ought not to be allowed to come near the sacred shrines of office. We have no such feeling in regard to the Labour leaders. We think their policy unsound, believe it would have most disastrous effects upon the country as a whole, and would not improve, but immensely intensify, the economic evils from With we sre * * * *