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Broadstone, Wimborne.

October 10, 1907.

Dear Sir,

— I told Mr. Button that I do not approve of the resolution you are going to move.¹

The workers of England have themselves returned a large majority of ordinary Liberals, including hundreds of capitalists, landowners, manufactuers, 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 did before, yet you are going to pass what is practically a vote of censure 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.