16 JANUARY 1904, Page 3

Those who weary of interminable discussions on the fiscal question

should read the article on " Free Trade and the Unionist Party " in the new number of the Edinburgh Review. It is a masterly summary of the whole situation, and the writer's conclusion is that Mr. Chamberlain is building up a new and powerful party—not necessarily a victorious party— upon the basis of Protection alone. It is that party we have to defeat, or go back sixty years.