RHODES ON THE BRAIN.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Suit,—Your correspondent, "A Thirty Years' Reader," in the Spectator of February 24th, twits you with having Rhodes on the brain, and seems to suggest that there is one "standard of in oral action" in parochial affairs and another in Imperial. As another "Thirty Years' Reader," let me invite his earnest attention to Sir William Harcourt's speech in the Raid debate last week, which I rejoice to see you characterise as "deserving the highest praise." That speech was a veritable oasis in the dreary waste of talk, and seemed to me to lay down very clearly that, whatever the standard in parochial matters, there could be but one in Imperial—viz., the standard of honour, truth, and justice—and that a man could not be guilty of political crime, and still claim that his personal honour was unsullied.—I am, Sir, &c., J.
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