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what the local Chambers make it. This want 

 of unanimity is only another bogey. 



NO. 4 — LABOURERS WILL NOT VOTE WITH 

 THEIR EMPLOYERS. 



This, on the face of it, would absolutely crush 

 out any vestige of hope that otherwise might 

 have been entertained — if it were true, but it is 

 not. There are hundreds and thousands of 

 labourers that, at the present time, vote the 

 same way as their employers. If this were not 

 so, how is it that Unionist candidates for rural 

 divisions ever succeed in getting into Parliament, 

 since the majority of landowners and farmers 

 have been on the Unionist side, but have been 

 vastly outnumbered by the labourers ever since 

 the last Reform Act ? If some of these 

 labourers have voted for Unionists in the past, 

 and by so doing have voted with their employers, 

 I fail to see why they should not support an 

 agriculturist. I believe, on the contrary, that 

 very many labourers would support an agri- 

 cultural candidate who would not vote for a 

 Unionist. That, of course, remains to be 

 proved, but I — unlike our opponents — do not 

 assert it as an incontrovertible fact. It is not 

 unlikely, either, that many labourers have got 

 as tired of the election promises of both Liberal 

 and Conservative candidates as have many 



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