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Show DKIIATING ttOCIAMKM. The Important (Juration Agitated In Ilia llouae of liord. London, May -'0. All powers except France have concluded a commercial treaty wilh Turkey upon a basis of a fixed tariff. Iu the House of Lords today the earl of W'cllys and March denounced the tendency of tho government towards socialist legislation. It was not land alone but every kind of properly that was threatened. The freedom of the contract and the freedom of a private enterprise were assailed. Salisbury admitted the existence of a u4,.tirr t nniliiiifir In li:ill Itnilll I ll' Htllttt upon every occasion. . This, he said statesmen must guard against. Too much importance was attached to the spectre of socialism. The public could be trusted to find out what a practical good lies behind socialist doctrines, and uobodv, not absolutely blind, could deny the existence of the great evils from which arose socialist proposals and action. We are bound to do all we can to remedy these evils, even if we goi i called socialists, knowing we are undertaking un-dertaking no new principle or striking out. on no new route, but are simply pursuing long and healthy tradition of English legislation. |