25 JUNE 1921, Page 14

" WHO ARE THE MINERS?"

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. F. Jobling asks what I was aiming at in my letter in your issue of May 28th, I am happy to tell him, although the answer seems obvious from the letter, I aimed at correcting a misstatement frequently made of late, quoted an example of that misstatement, and gave simple statistics correcting it—to that I confined myself. How a simple statement of fact, backed by comparative statistics, can show that my mind is prejudiced