ON THE TERMS OF SETTLEMENT.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Snt,—It is painful to read in the columns of a paper with the traditions of the Spectator a letter like " C. M.'s" (Apri113th) on the terms of settlement. Two years ago who would have believed that we should have been urged in the columns of the Spec- tator to stamp out the language of a nation in the name of " equality," and to plume ourselves on the sentry-guarded camps into which we drive women whose homes in many cases we have destroyed ? Such a letter in such a place is a
measure of our fall.—I am, Sir, &c., A. A. M.
[If our correspondent had read our editorial columns, he would have seen that we have repeatedly declared that though the Taal must not be artificially pampered, it must have fair play and be in no sense proscribed: We are not in the habit of excluding letters otherwise of interest merely because we do not agree with the whole of their contents. We publish " A. A. M.'s" letter, for instance, though we consider that the policy adopted in regard to the camps was necessary, and in no sort of way cruel and inhuman. Those of our readers who agree with our views on the war will not, we are sure, be so illiberal as to think the publication of A. A. M.'s " letter is a sign of weakening in the Spectator, or as a proof that we share his views.—En. Spectator.]
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