THE GREAT COAL STRIKE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Snit,—In your proposal for the creation of State Arbitrators,. may I submit that your reviewer has omitted to suggest one important consideration P He argues, with perfect truth, that the existence of these Arbitrators would not prevent war when either masters or men chose to fight; but would not, save under exceptional circumstances, the fact of one party being willing, and the other unwilling to accept each arbitration, enlist the very powerful, in many cases all-powerful, sympathies of the public against the obvious aggressor P And would not this fact put great moral pressure in favour of peace, and afford,. if war still broke out, a most desirable guidance to outsiders as to which side was entitled to claim their benevolent neutrality P
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