ABSTRACT
The long attempt by the Radical “Progressives” of the London County Council to acquire the Water powers, allowed to the municipal authorities of so many other cities, had been finally beaten, and Metropolitan Water Board of Conservative design imposed on London in defiance. Mr. Chamberlain opened his campaign as a fiscal missionary at Glasgow on October 6th, and since then has addressed many large gatherings in support of his policy. Chamberlain had privately held for some time that the results of the Education Act and the War Office Inquiry would prove fatal to the Government at the next General Election though he had originally hoped from being either strong or long-lived. As the Tariff Reform debate grew hotter through the summer and autumn, Channing’s constituency letters and speeches centred on it more and more. Channing’s own summary of his message to his constituency Summer Meeting, a message very characteristic of the line Opposition was taking all over the country.
