[To Paz EDITOR OP TER " spwriTos."1
Sin,—Allowing, as I am perfectly willing to do, that the accusations made by Liberals of intimidation on the part of Tories are of an exceedingly vague and paltry nature, is it not true that the secretary of the Liberty and Property Defence League advised Conservatives to withdraw their custom from tradesmen with whose views they did not agree P This I see definitely stated in the Nation of last week, and although any reference as to when and where this occurred is omitted, still one can hardly suppose that the editor of so respectable a journal would have concocted the story.—I am, Sir, &c., Isiqusnen.
[We have seen a statement of the kind alluded to by "Inquirer," but we confess to being ignorant of the actual views expressed by the secretary of the organisation named. But even if he did recommend a political boycott, as is apparently alleged, we can only say that he must in that case be a very foolish person. To treat the wild appeals of an obscure individual as affording the specific proofs of actual intimidation for which we asked would surely be most unreasonable.—En. Spectator.]
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