[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] agfee 'with - yen in
endorsing the quotations- from Mrs. Corbett Ashby -arid Mr.' Henry Hobhoithe in your artiele' "The Real Cie:avail " your issue Of June- 15th, and I
halla no fault to find with your profession of 'policy' in the'
- . previous issue. I must, however, take exception to your diiiisiOn of the electorate into a PrOgreSsive Party, " 'Strong in the strength of Fie-e Trade because of its 'up-to-date -eon-- ceptiori of the organized world community," and a Conser- vative Party "bitten by the microbes of Protection -And a short-sighted Imperial- policy as' against' the League:" 'What. is there up to date in the time-worn theories 'of Bright and Cobden, and are not' Safeguarderd of our important industries to'be fOund. hi the ranks Of the Labour as well s Of the -Con-. servative Party? What-about Mr:-.Snowden and the sugar- beet indUstry, for example? It is only necessary to name Lord Cecil to prove 'that. a COnserVative can lie as whole- hearted a supporter of the League as anyone else. If lie' left the late government in order to have a free hand, I have yet to learn that lie has ceased iti be a Conservative.—! am, [Our leading article this week should- answer some of the points raised by our correspondent. We recognize that there are many hard-bitten Safeguaiders in the Trade Union rank, but the leaders- naturally take the wider view -Owing to the long-established .international associations Of the movement. There viii,S; of course; no -more telling-indietnient of the late Government than its failine to backLord CeciL-L-
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