THOMAS JEFFERSON AGAIN.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I was much interested in reading in the Spectator last week the letter from "J. R. S.," with its most apt quotation from Jefferson. The sayings of this statesman may well be pondered over just now, when our politicians are devising a policy of pick-pocketing which this democrat of democrats condemned in these words about a hundred years ago :—" To take from one man whose industry, or whose father's industry, has, it is thought, acquired too much, in order to give to another who has not exercised such industry, is to violate the fiat principles of association, the gnarranty to every one of the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired
thereby." These are hard words for the modern democrat; but if the principle of taking from him who has to give to him who has not is carried much further, I again quote the great Jefferson and exclaim : "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."—I am, Sir, &e.,
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