14 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 14

RETALIATION—IS IT FEASIBLE ?

pro THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Can we not bring this question to a simpler test than the figures Mr. Sydney Buxton has so carefully gathered ? Let us rather take a practical case. The United States has built a huge tariff-wall. Germany has counter-tariffs with which to retaliate; we have none. Has Germany's power of retaliation enabled her to obtain any easier admission through the States's tariff-wall than we have obtained without retaliation? If not, what reason is there to suppose that retaliation would help us ?