Last Saturday's Times contained a notable letter from Lord George
Hamilton on Tariff Reform and the Referendum. lie points out that at the recent Election, for the first time during ten years, the Unionist Party have shown a united front. The reason for this is Mr. Balfour's declaration that Tariff Reform should be referred to the electorate before becoming law. " The knowledge that Tariff Reform was to be referred to the people for their final decision was the primary and main cause of our victories and of the reduction of the Radical majorities." On the other hand, Lord George Hamilton traces the Unionist losses to the fear of food-taxes. He concludes his letter by a protest against the action of those Unionists who are " so circumscribed in their political instincts as publicly to advocate the repudiation of the only arrangement and policy by which their party could once more become an effective fighting force against revolution."
