3. Will you resist any attempt to create a new statutory class of freeholders under the guise of "Enfranchised Leaseholders"?

Will you vote against the Leaseholders' Enfranchisement Bill?

4. Will you press for the grant of ample compulsory powers to all local authorities (including Parish Councils) to acquire land to be let out-not sold-in allotments and small tenancies ?

Will you strenuously resist any attempt to create additional landowners (under the guise of peasant proprietors) at the public expense or by public guarantee?

5. Will you urge the retention by all public authorities of all land now owned by them, so as to secure to the public the future "unearned increment"?

Will you resist the sale of any public lands (including Crown lands, charity property or Church glebes), or the extinction of the public rights over commons ?

6. The reform of the system of compensation to owners of property used for public purposes.

NOTE.-The subject of Land Reform is one on which much evasion is practised by candidates. Many of them are still wedded to the obsolete ideal of Peasant Proprietorship. "Reform of the Land Laws" is the phrase most commonly used to conceal their views. It will be noted that "Leasehold Enfranchisement " still stultifies the official Liberal programme, though it has been omitted from that of the London Liberal Members and candidates. The only sound reform which could possibly come under the head of "Leasehold Enfranchisement" would be a measure enabling tenants of Leaseholds to obtain compensation for improvements. In cases where the tenant is a democratic representative body, power to enfranchise the leasehold would of course be unobjectionable.

V. Social Reforms.

1. The extension of full municipal powers to the London County Council and all representative governing bodies.

2. The development and completion of Local Government by the creation of District and Parish Councils.

NOTE. It is important to lay stress on Parish Councils. Nothing else will be of use to the agricultural laborer.

Parishes too small for separate Councils can be grouped with their neighbors.

V.

1. Will you press for a measure conferring upon the London and other County Councils the full control over the local police?

Will you vote in favor of allowing the London County Council to permit and regulate meetings in Trafalgar Square?

Will you grant to the Town and County Councils full powers to directly undertake provision for the supply of water, gas, and tramways, and such other public services as it may be called upon by its constituents to enter upon?

2. Will you resist any attempt to impose any pecuniary or rating qualification for membership of the Parish or District Councils?

Will you oppose any attempt to form the Parish and District Councils otherwise than entirely by direct election.

3. The extension of the Factory Acts.

NOTE.-Does this vague phrase mean anything? "Extension" to what or to whom? All candidates should be strongly pressed to explain their meaning on this point. No Bill for the Extension of the Factory Acts has yet been introduced or described by any of the Liberal leaders.

NOTE.-See Fabian Tract No. 9, An Eight Hours Bill, in the form of Amendment of the Factory Acts, an price 1d.

4. The popular control of the Liquor Traffic.

5. The adequate public provision of Dwellings and Lodgings for the Working Classes.

NOTE.-Insist on a definite statement as to the building and maintenance of artizans' dwellings by the elected local authorities themselves-not by any "philanthropic" company or speculative builder.

6. The provision of Free Education, of Continuation, Intermediate and Technical Schools.

NOTE. Besides the so-called "voluntary "schools for elementary education, the secondary schools sadly need public organization and control.

3. Will you vote for the Eight Hours Bill for Miners?

Will you insist on 66 an Eight Hours Day" for all public servants?

Will you insist that, where the direct employment of labor by public authorities is not possible, only "fair houses" should be employed, and sub-contracting prohibited or strictly regulated?

Will you press for the legal limitation of the hours of work of Railway Servants?

Will you support a measure enabling local authorities to limit, if thought fit, the maximum hours of work on tramways and other local monopolies ?

Will you press for the special extension and development of the Factory Acts necessary to mitigate "sweating" in London?

Will you support such an "Eight Hours Bill" as that drafted by the Fabian Society?

5. Are you in favor of the grant of full powers to enable local authorities (both urban and rural) themselves to build and maintain dwellings, to be let at "fair rents"?

6. Will you support the provision from public funds, and the management by elected public authorities, of Continuation, Secondary and Technical Schools?

The whole of the existing colleges for training teachers are denominational, and managed in sectarian interests, although virtually supported from public funds. No college exists in which a non-Christian teacher can obtain training without conforming to a religion in which he does not believe.

NOTE.-Over 43,000 children go to school in London without adequate breakfast. (See Report of Committee of London School Board, 1889.)

7. The application of tithes in Wales to national purposes.

8. Disestablishment in Scotland and Wales.

9. The promotion of International Arbitration.

NOTE. Nothing is yet stated in the official Liberal programme as to any reform of the Poor Law; but Mr. John Morley has given this as one of the prominent desires of the Liberal party. See his Eighty Club speech, Nov. 17th,

1889.

Will you press for the establishment of training colleges for teachers, free from any religious test, and exclusively under public control?

Do you agree that free meals must, without delay, be provided out of public funds for all destitute children not otherwise adequately fed?

Will you urge the provision from public funds of ample scholarships, so as to make an effective 66 ladder to the University" for all?

Will you press for a reform of the Poor Law, so as to remove all stigma of dishonor from the public destitute provision for persons through no fault of their own?

Will you press for a system of honorable pensions for the aged, instead of the workhouse?

Will you press for the removal of the rating qualification for Poor Law Guardians and the regulation of Guardian elections, under the system of "one man one vote" by ballot?

Will you support the creation of a single "Poor Law Council" for London (with local committees), and the equalization of the London Poor Rate?