Conclusions 



Are they going to stand by and allow ruin to 

 overtake the nation for want of making 

 sufficient effort to wipe out the evils of our 

 party system ? The present attitude of 

 politicians towards the land and all social 

 reforms is well summed up in the New 

 Statesman of August 21st, 1915- "One 

 party fears to create a precedent for State 

 interference with land ; the other party fears 

 to compromise its Free Trade principles by 

 any guarantee of a price (for wheat) ; while 

 both possess a cultivated distrust for the 

 capacity of the State to organize or order 

 any industry with success. So a nation of 

 which the individuals are born * doers ' 

 develops an oriental fatalism of inaction." 



To consider the Empire as a whole, 

 this war has caused a great strengthening 

 of the bonds between the mother country 

 and the daughter nations, and therefore the 

 greatest care must be taken when the war 

 is over to obviate any danger of reaction. 

 The financial situation will be very difficult, 

 and there is nothing more calculated than 

 money difficulties to strain even the most 

 friendly feelings. If the Home Government 



