12 OCTOBER 1912, Page 15

TOPSY-TURVYDOM.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—The satire of " Punch " was never better employed than in the last issue. Here is Belfast (Free Trade to the backbone) looking to the Tariff Reformers to save them from Home Rule, and the Nationalists (Tariff Reformers to a man) looking to the Free Trade party to give them Home Rule. With so many cross-currents in English politics how is any important question to be settled on its merits otherwise than by Referendum P-