18 APRIL 1914, Page 15

"THE ARMY VERSUS THE PEOPLE." [To THE EDITOR OF THE

.SPECTAT0841 Ssn,—A most striking illustration of the new Liberal political ethic occurs in a notable letter addressed, on the eve of Easter, by Sir West Ridgeway to the Times. In it he alludes to " the wicked cry of ' The Army against the People,' which the present Government have patriotically refused to countenance." So Liberal stewards of the nation's interests are now to be lauded as patriotic if they abstain from electioneering on an admittedly "wicked cry." "Chinese slavery" seems to have