The appeal put forward in the letter headed "Politics and
Pockets " in Monday's Times deserves the strongest com- mendation and support. Wherever one looks it is impos- sible to escape the eternal appeal to the pocket. " Under which Government, Conservative or Radical, shall I score most P In town and country it is the same. Huge posters are posted up for the villagers, blatantly and coarsely selfish
in their meaning. In towns the entire issue at stake is represented by both sides alike as a simple question of £ s. d. for the individual voter." If Socialistic voters openly declare their indifference to the nationality of their rulers, no one can complain of the working man disowning his race, for " he has a perfect right to drop every shred of patriotism from his politics if every soul he meets appeals to nothing but his pocket."
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