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THE HOUSING QUESTION 
of housing conditions ; if drink and crime are to be successfully 
combated, decent, sanitary houses must be provided. If * unrest' 
is to be converted into contentment, the provision of good houses 
may prove one of the most potent agents in that conversion. . . 
For these words of the King, his Ministers, the 
present Coalition Government, were responsible. What 
kind of “ untiring energy and enthusiasm " have they 
shewn since ? 
An old rhyme runs :— 
" When war is raging and danger nigh, 
God and soldiers is their cry. 
When war is done and things are righted, 
God is forgotten : the soldiers slighted.” 
A fitting epitaph for the Coalition Government. 
But although the Coalition Government will doubt 
less be buried by the verdict of History in the pit into 
which they have cast their avalanche of broken 
promises, the fight will continue, and it will need hard 
and continuing effort on the part of all who wish to help 
the working men and women of Britain to bring about 
a real betterment of their conditions. In spite of all the 
soothing, and often genuinely well-meant words of 
those who desire a union of feeling between classes, 
such union can never be brought about under the 
present grossly unfair economic conditions. The great 
struggle between the principle of aristocracy and the 
principle of democracy, which is going on all over 
the world, will never cease until the conditions which 
have brought about that struggle are overthrown.