[To Tar EDITOR 07 TRIN " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As a Conservative
worker for the last forty years I should like to endorse every word of Sir Wiu. Forwood's admirable letter on the subject of our present policy. I cannot imagine anything more suicidal or more likely to spoil every chance we have of success at the next election than again to press Tariff Reform to the front. I have a daily journey of thirty miles each way and I have ample oppor- tunities of hearing the opinions of Lancashire business men on both sides of polities, and I am perfectly certain that if we make Tariff Reform a prominent plank in our platform the same difficulties and differences of opinion in our ranks will prevail to prevent the material success which we must strive for. Surely, as Sir W. Forwood points out, we have a strong enough platform without it on which all could unite in a common effort to turn out the present Government. I
therefore venture to appeal to our leaders and to our various associations, unions, and clubs to recognize the wisdom of postponing to a more convenient season a subject about which such strong difference of opinion exists, and which if we try to make it a battle cry will rather lose votes than win them.—I
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