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IF anyone with a preternatural talent for exposition described in a Bill the existing organization of our local government he would produce a doeunient longer and more difficult to understand than the Bill of-Mr. Neville Chamberlain which is being jeered at for its complexity. There could be no eonipieliensive Bill for reforming local government, including the Poor Law, that would be simple. The same thing is true of a dozen of the more important British institutions. If the opponents of derating have no more damning argument than that Mr. Chamberlain's Bill is too intricate for them to understand, they have a very n,.eak ease They are wanting in determination andials(iin loyalty.; 'All parties are agreed upon the necessity of . cterating—or, if the phrase be preferred, rerating—liut = the --GOverliment have exceeded the other parties in (1.0111..age by attempting to achieve at one stroke, not only the relief of industry, but the Iiiiii-V-VeFatitilitiohoVall
