In Tuesday's Times Mr. J. A. R. Marriott does good
service by analysing the election address of the Labour candidate in the Kirkdale Division of Liverpool. Mr. Hill, the candidate in question, though avoiding the use of the term "Socialism," frankly advocates the application of Socialist principles. "As I am opposed to the present commercial system of production for profit, I would advocate in Parlia- ment the nationalisation of the production, distribution, anti exchange of ' the common necessities of life." On the other hand, while professing Free-trade principles in general, he specifically advocates protection of the timber trade and the wholesale exclusion of foreign workmen. As Mr. Marriott puts it, "many of us hold that the two principles of Socialism 4.4d Protection] are essentially corn- PlementarY ; but rarely, if ever, has this truth been more effectually demonstrated." Mr. Marriott abstains from arguing on the rights or wrongs of either system, but be urges that it is futile for Socialists to suppose that they can try their experi- ments wept under the protection of tariff-walls, and that Protectionists "should seriously consider their position, lest they be foreed by the stern logic; of faote to keep company which at present they disdain."
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