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ALFRED R. WALLACE,
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TO MR. A. WILTSHIRE[53]
_Broadstone, Wimborne. October 10, 1907._
Dear Sir,--I told Mr. Button that I do not approve of the resolution you
are going to move.[54]
The workers of England have themselves returned a large majority of
ordinary Liberals, including hundreds of capitalists, 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 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.
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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,
ALFRED R.
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