Alfred Russel Wallace 



so valued, the first real and definite steps towards complete 

 nationalisation. . . . Alfred E. Wallace. 



To Mr. a. Wiltshire' 



Broadstone, Wimborne. October 10, 1907. 



Dear Sir, — I told Mr. Button that 1 do not approve of 

 the resolution you are going to move.' 



The workers of England have themselves returned a large 

 majority of ordinary Liberals, including hundreds of capital- 

 ists, landowners, manufacturers, and lawyers, with only a 

 sprinkling of Radicals and Socialists. The Government — 

 your own elected Government — is doing more for the 

 workers than any Liberal Government ever did before, yet 

 you are going to pass what is practically a vote of cen- 

 sure on it for not being a Radical, Labour, and Socialist 

 Government ! 



If this Government attempted to do what you and I 

 think ought to be done, it would lose half its followers 

 and be turned out, ignominiously, giving the Tories another 

 chance. That is foolish as well as unfair. — Yours truly, 



Alfred R. Wallace. 



To Lord Avebury 



Broadstone, Wimborne. June 23, 1908. 



Dear Lord Avebury, — . . . Allow me to wish every 

 success to your Bill for preserving beautiful birds from 

 destruction. To stop the import is the only way — short 

 of the still more drastic method of heavily fining everyone 

 who wears feathers in public, with imprisonment for a 

 second offence. But we are not yet ripe for that. — Yours 

 very truly, Aij'Red R. Wallace. 



* Hon. Sec. of the Federated Trades and Labour Council, Bournemouth. 



* At an Old Age Pension meeting. 



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