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PROVINCIAL BRANCHES :- ENGLAND — Liverpool : Hon. Secretary, Francis Hartley, Esq., Castle Chambers, 26, Castle Street. Manchester: [appointment pending.] Leeds : Hon. Secretary, Walter Rowley, Esq., 74, Albion Street. Sheffield: Hon. Secretary, Percy Sorby, Esq., II, George Street. Nottingham : [appointment pending.] York: Hon. Secretary, F. H. Anderson, Esq., 41, Stonegate. Bristol : Hon. Secretary, H. J. Brown, Esq., 43, High Street. Plymouth: Hon. Secretary, R. S. Clarke, Esq., 4 Athenaeum Terrace. Bournemouth : Hon. Secretary, J. R. Pretyman, Esq., Richmond Lodge. SCOTLAND— Glasgow: Hon. Secretary, C.J. Maclean, Esq., 81, Bath Street. Aberdeenshire : Hon. Secretary, Colonel W. Ross-King, Tertowie House, Kinaldie."^ The League opposes all attempts to introduce the State as competitor or regulator into the various departments of social activity and industry, which would otherwise be spontaneously and adequately conducted by private enterprise. Questions of the structure or constitution of the State and those of foreign policy do not come within the scope of the League. It is exclusively concerned with the internal functions or duties of the State. During the last 15 years all interests in the country have suc- cessively suffered at the hands of the State an increasing loss of their self-government. These apparently disconnected invasions of individual freedom of action by the central authority are in reality so many instances of a general movement towards State- Socialism, the deadening effect of which on all branches of industry and originality the working classes will be the first to feel. Each interest conducting its self-defence without any reference to the others has, on every occasion, hitherto failed to oppose successfully the full force of this movement concentrated