In a second letter to the Times, published on Thursday,
Mr. Frederic Harrison restates the case against the reversal of the Osborne judgment in vigorous language. What he objects to principally is that Trade-Union funds subscribed as insurance money against sickness, old age, or unemployment should be used for purposes of Socialistic propaganda. "To talk of a 'complete reversal' of the Osborne judgment is to enact, as a principle of law, freedom, say, for the North-Western Railway to embark on ballooning to New York, and for the P. and 0. Steamship Company to spend its income on 'Votes for Women.' " With reference to the accusations of partiality that have been made against the Judges who decided the case, Mr. Harrison declares that he found not a trace of anti-popular
bias in any word of the eight Judges who sat on the Osborne case. He concludes by saying that this is his last word to Trade-Unionists :—" Do not sacrifice all the benefit of Trade- Unions by turning them into miscellaneous clubs for political agitation—in the name of a new heaven—which means a dozen rival nostrums."
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