25 APRIL 1908, Page 19

We may note that while so staunch a Free-trader as

Professor Dicey appeals to Manchester Unionists to reject Mr. Winston Churchill as a Home-rule candidate, so stalwart a Unionist as Mr. Arthur Elliot supports his candidature in the interests of Free-trade. Mr. Churchill's answer to the test question devised by the Free-Trade League, as we pointed out last week, gave them, as a non-party organisation, a logical ground for supporting h is caudidature,—a ground, indeed, from which it would have been difficult to withdraw after having put their question in the form they adopted. But, as our readers are well aware, it was not, in our opinion, the teat question that ought to have been applied. As we go to press on the day of the poll, we prefer to withhold further comment until our next issue.