12 FEBRUARY 1910, Page 15

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR.1

Warde Fowler, writing in your last issue of the agricultural labourer in England and Wales, says : " They will give you strange reasons for their Liberal vote if you ask them." The same remark applies to Scotland. In a Lowland constituency the other day an old fellow was heard to say : "Why am I going to vote Liberal ? I'll tell ye. I ken fine wha took the exemption aff the sheep-dugs forty years ago." Another elderly man said : " We'll pit in the richt Government this time. They'll dae awa' with the Hoose o' Lords and the Budget." Both these remarks were made outside the polling-place, not to canvassers. Both were made by most worthy-looking men, apparently fair specimens of the average "intelligent Scotch elector."—I am, Sir, &c., E. L.