18 SEPTEMBER 1909, Page 15

THE BUDGET.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am not at all anxious that the Lords should throw out this Budget. Just now the people are quite pleased with it, and believe what they are told by members of the Govern- ment, that it will give them innumerable blessings. Let them try it, and if they retain their liking for it long I shall be surprised. The Unionists will have ample opportunity of putting the finances of the country on a sounder basis when they return to office, for there is at present an amount of wasteful extravagance which no one but a spendthrift would tolerate in his private affairs for a moment.—I am, Sir,