THE "SPECTATOR" AND AMERICA.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—I have come across the following clipping, which is apparently from a New York newspaper of June 3rd. It will amuse your American readers even more than your British :—
"The London Spectator, which after the 'glorious triumph' of British arms in South Africa complained bitterly because Lord Salisbury bad not grasped the Venezuelan opportunity for England to chastise the United States, is opposed to reciprocity between the Imperial Colonies. In its argument against the Chamberlain policy the Spectator says 'the vast pension list of the United States is largely created in order to get an excuse for a high Protective tariff.' In an obscure English newspaper such
break' as this would be passed over with a smile, but in the aristocratic Spectator, which assumes to feed the cultured minds of English high life, it gives us quite as much of a shock as the brutal boast from the same quarter some time ago that the whip- ping of this country by England on the occasion of the first Venezuelan dispute would have been an easy task."
—I am, Sir, &c., Z.
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