1 JANUARY 1921, Page 23

" NO BETTER OFF."

(To THE Enrroa ON TER " SPEOTATOR."3 • Mr. H. Field's letter- to you last week is one sentence I have found repeated again and again by " Labour " politi- cians: " The masses of the people are no better off than they were before the war." The sentence is a good example of the profundity of "Labour " thinking. We fought to prevent German domination. of Europe—not as a method of earning dividends. We lost about a million men and about 8,000 millions of money. And'the masses-of the people are no better off than before the war. One would think we had had 8,000 millions given to hear the average Labour orator. The present writer is an unrepentant "Wee Free," and the weekly organ that he finds with the most " powerful :sanity" in things economic is the Spectator. All good causes, Sir, are helped by your truth-seeking, perhaps including some you oppose!—I am,