In the Lords on Wednesday Lord Camperdown asked for information
as to the land policy of the Government. At Hanley Mr. Outhwaite bad said that " Mr. Lloyd George, with the support of the Prime Minister, would embark this autumn on a great campaign, to be continued right up to the next General Election, to do something for the overthrow of the land monopoly." An extreme land policy was being urged by many Liberals, and though Mr. Asquith had said that he was not a "single taxer," he had done nothing to dissociate himself from the idea of the projected campaign. Lord Hal. dane said that Lord Camperdown was unnecessarily alarmed. He himself found nothing definite in Mr. Outhwaite's statement, and he attached no importance to it. Mr. Outhwaite's words might mean anything or nothing, and he had not spoken for the Government. The Government would announce their policy when they had considered it. The Committee which had been formed to consider the matter was collecting information, not drawing up a programme, and it was absolutely non-official. Lord Haldane's answer, we may remark, is not much more definite than Mr. Outhwaite's. An extreme land campaign is un- doubtedly being arranged by many Liberals, and if they capture the sympathies of enough members of the party need we hesitate to prophesy that Mr. Asquith will take over the whole scheme P
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