A TRIBUTE TO MR. BONAR LAW.
fTo cost Eorror. or THE " SPECTATOR."1
Sis.—For reasons into which there is no need to go, I am opposed to the special penalization of the shipping interest adopted in this year's Budget. But there is one thing that should have been said in yesterday's debate that was not said. I believe that the Spectator will appreciate it. We are accustomed to hear from ignorant persons that English politics are corrupt. This seems to people outside polities to be a pleasing doctrine, a form of running clown one's country which is not only tolerated but respectable. That the contrary is the case is of course known to those in politics; that in this particular no other nation can approach our standards is a legitimate sourer of national pride. Yesterday it received signal evidence, for which I want to tender to the Chancellor sincere thanks. Mr. Bonne Law is not a rich man,
and of his own motion when he need hare done nothing, as human nature would suggest, he goes out of his way to surrender 13,000 a year, not to mention a large increase of capital values in his shipping shares. This is the spirit which will not only win the war, but also confirms our best traditions, and adds great glory to the good name of England.—I am, Sir, Re.,
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