It has had some hard knocks in the Press this
week. Sir Herbert Samuel has been writing a series of articles in the News Chronicle which bring up to (late the orthodox Free Trade arguments and deal particularly with the taxes on food entailed by " Empire Free Trade." Lord Ilugh Cecil flashed into view, as he too rarely does, with a letter in the Times of July 11th, as illuminating and provocative as ever. It was left to him to put in a postscript a question that has been in many people's minds. Since the first step in Empire Free Trade must be the consent of the Dominions to receive our manufactures, the crusade should begin there. Why, then, " should not Lord Beavcrbrook go back to Canada ? " General Asquith has put questions which reveal the fog which surrounds the scheme. Thus from within and without the Unionist Party is pounded, and cannot stand upright and squarely before the country as it must before it can regain power.
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