14 DECEMBER 1901, Page 16

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." j Snt,—How tremendous

a gulf it is that separates rich from poor, how total the lack of sympathy, when such a proposal as that put forward in Mr. Murray's letter in the Spectator of December 7th can be seriously made and seriously considered ! Does Mr. Murray really suppose we would stand that sort of thing ? Because we would not. Many of us, thousands of us, have as much chance of teaching our children a trade as we have of leaving them a publishing business with a world- wide reputation, and yet in default they are to be taken from us and drafted into the Army, with the cynical addition that we may redeem them at a price quite out of our power. One hopes that Mr. Murray does not fully realise all that his pro-