11 DECEMBER 1915, Page 3

We publish elsewhere a very able and ingenious letter from

Mr. Agg-Gardner, MP. for Cheltenham, who may be described as one of the leading representatives of ." the trade," in the House of Commons. In that letter he asks us several questions. Though they are somewhat in the nature of special pleading, we make no complaint, !or it is quite natural and proper that Mr. Agg-Gardner should fight as hard as he can for his friends, and that in pursuit of this object he should try to embarrass us dialectically. The questions, involving as they do a great deal of detail touching the mechanism of prohibition, will have to be dealt with by us at length on some future occasion. We should like, however, to deal shortly with them to-day.