[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. W. P. Fullagar,
your Bolton correspondent of Feb- ruary 10th, knows his Lancashire well as to Tariff Reform, and it is refreshing to find such an experienced and able Tory coming out into the open to tell the public bow things really. are. At first the cotton operative was taken in by the, heresy, but after a while, on his Free Trade education being attended to by the trade-union leaders, he will now have nothing to do with the Birmingham proposals. In the city. of Manchester, where there are few cotton mills, things are- little different, " Conservative Worker " does not tell all about, the Manchester election to which he refers. The votes were very largely personal, and had not much to do with Tariff Reform. The Tory Party of their own making has got into- a hole, and how they are to get out of it is not an easy matter. One thing is pretty certain, that if a General Election. in Lancashire, were fought on Tariff Reform alone it would.
have no chance.—I am, Sir, &c., WILLIAM TATTERSALL.
Strutt Street, Manchester.
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