THE BUDGET AND FREE TRADE [To the Editor of the
SPECTATOR.] -- Sin,—Mai I suggest that your-two articles (" The Budget " and " The Epidemic of Protection ") imply that the majority of the voters in. this country may continue to vote in favour of Free Trade even if it half kills our trade, employed awl .unemployed, and that *. Baldwin's_ doctrine cannot help them ?
The suggestion is that the majority of the voters are either " correct," " financial purists " 'or " inflexible," and cannot learn " expediency " or experience, Tariffs in England could be recognized by the majority as sound " doctrine," " expediency," and experience, as against unsound Free Trade now practised here—provided that they would learn.
It is only Mr. Baldwin and his Unionists who can teach the majority that Safeguarding Duties can recreate the trade in this country and very largely cure unemployment.—I am,
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