THE PRICE OF BACON
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Radnor's case amounts to this : that because in some selected year the price of bacon was a certain figure no one has any cause of complaint so long as it is no higher. Not so : producers are not entitled to claim a statutory right to dip their hands into the pockets of the people. Lord Radnor says that when the quota was instituted the total supplies were stabilised at the normal pre-depression con- sumption. The population has increased considerably since then and what may have been enough then is not enough now. The plain fact is that the jiggery-pokery of the Govern- ment and the Boards is maintaining the price of bacon higher than it need be if their hands were only kept off it. You were therefore perfectly right in your contention.—Yours, &c.,
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