ALDERMANHOOD AS A SCHOOL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—I should, with you, think the County Councillors right if they welcomed Mr. B. Tillett, Labour agitator of extreme views, within their respectable ranks, always supposing he was duly elected. I do not think them right in picking him out, though not elected, and making an Alderman of him. It is one thing to be glad that all views are represented, but quite another to invest a revolutionary extremist with special honours. The class who do this are either revolutionary themselves, or mere dilettantists, probably the latter. They are in the position of those who, like Lord Ramsay at Liver- pool, began the game of coquetting with disaffected Irish,— with what consequences all men now behold. You say it is important to teach these men, and I agree; but you do not confer doctorates on beginners in order that the scarlet robe may attract youths into your lecture-rooms.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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