Our articles last week on State Purchase seem to have
caused equal annoyance to the representatives of the Trade, the moderate Prohibitionists, and the extremer advocates of temperance. That was no doubt to be expected in a compromise policy. In addition, we are sorry to find that organs of public opinion so different as the Morning Post- and the Wedminster Gazette seem entirely to have mistaken the position of the Spectator. For example, the Morning Post writes as if we were teetotal fanatics who thought that men were ruined body and soul by even the most moderate use of intoxicants. The Westminster Gazelle, on the other hand, appears to consider that so great is our- affection for the Trade that we argeproposing to endow them with millions to which they have no real claim. In view of these facts, our readers will perhaps pardon us if we once more state our position.
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