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Reflect how the compromise works in practice. Tha present writer

may cite his own case. In 1905, owing to Tariff Reform, he felt obliged, though remaining a Unionist, to stop his subscription to the local Unionist Association, and to cease being a member. The knowledge that Tariff Reform will not be passed without his being able to vote on it isolated from other questions has at once set him free to rejoin the party organisation and to continue his subscriptions. What has happened in his case is happening in every con- stituency in the country, and the weight of these returning members will be increasingly felt at the polls. Free-traders can live once more in the Unionist Party, and can work for that party as strenuously and as whole-beartedly as before 1906.

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