22 OCTOBER 1921, Page 1

When all has been said the fact remains that trade

is suffering, and there is consequently terrible unemployment, because taxation is far too high. Taxation is far too high beciuse the Government have been wildly extravagant. Unemploy- ment is the child of excessive taxation. Mr. Lloyd Georgo speaks as though the crash in trade were an " act of God," and as though he had nothing whatever to do with it. Yet it has been gradually and visibly coming because he has poured out money like water, has pauperized the people, and has recom- mended in his time more patent medicines than any other political doctor whose name has been allowed to remain on the register. If only we could persuade political leaders to recognize that facts are what they are and the consequences will be what they will be I