THE DANGER OF BUREAUCRACY.
[To 7R111 EDITOR OP TOR "SpEcrAro6.”] Sin,—The article by " Vigilans" in your last issue is both necessary and timely. Forty years' experience as an Income Tax Commissioner has shown me that there is general acquiescence in the decisions of the local Commissioners, while the appeals to Somerset House from those decisions might be counted on the fingers. An infinitely worse evil than the so-called militarism, which is such a bugbear to some people, would be the substitution of salaried bureaucrats for those various bodies of independent individuals who con. eider it both a privilege and a duty to give their services ungrudgingly for the carrying on of the internal affairs of -the country. That which Edmund Burke called " the cold neutrality of an impartial judge" is undoubtedly preferred by Englishmen to the, possibly unconscious, bias of a Govern.
ment Department. —I am, Sir, &c., J. GORDON CROWDY.
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