WANTED, A COMPROMISE.
(To MR EDIT= OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I am most unwilling to trespass further on your valuable space, but I really „cannot accept your statement that I and my friends are "insisting in a year of famine that a million quarters of malt, all suitable for human consumption, shall be deprived of their food value and turned into intoxicants." I have never insisted on any such proposition, and no responsible editor has any right or pretext to suggest that such is the case. Nothing in my letters that you have been good enough to insert affords the slightest ground for such a charge, which in my opinion should either be justified or at once withdrawn. With reference to your article on the food problem, I am quite unaware that "the brewers have been hardening their hearts and doing every- thing they.can to prevent. Purchase, or at any rate have resolved to ask an impossible price." Nothing is easier than to erect a dummy of This nature and prove your strength and patriotism by knocking it down. I should suggest, however, that the dummy is a figment of the Press. As a brewer, I have no intention of being thrown by this or any other Government to the wolves on account of-actions and decisions for which I am not responsible. Should any such attempt be made, the Government will find that others can throw, and 'Nature teaches beasts to know their [We have dealt with this letter in our "News of the Week " paragraphs.—En. Spectator.]
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