HOW TO VOTE AT THE NEXT ELECTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, It would be interesting to know whether Mr. Phillimore (see Spectator, December 19th) voted for the Radical candidate for Ludlow. This is the difficult question which Unionists who are Free-traders have to face, and I cannot think that the Spectator realises its difficulty. It is very well to say that there is room for a compromise ; but where is the common meeting ground P I fear that Mr. Massie's letter in the same issue gives the true answer,that there is none. Like many others, I was brought up to be, and am, a Whig and a Free-trader, and have a horror of Protection. But how am I to vote for the present-day Radicals, who would give Home-rule to Ireland, representative government to the Boers, and parochial government to the Empire ? The Spectator seems to scold people who will not at any cost vote for the Radicals on the issue of Free-trade; but there are other issues which cannot be lost sight of, and unless the Radicals can give some security as to their Irish, foreign, and Colonial policy, it will be very hard for many Unionists to give them their votes.—I am, Sir, &c.,
BARRISTER.
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