FROM AN AUSTRALIAN READER [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
- Sne,---Allow me to express as an old subscriber my sincere appreciation of the very fine Centenary issue of the Spectator. The Period of the last hundred years : covers great political, economic, and social changes. - The advance. of mechanical appliances dominating all sides of life- from peaeeful pursuits to devastating wars makes thoughtful men consider whether mere meChanism may not óverivhelin 'Moral purposes and incentives, 11IlleSS relieved by artistic and literary aims and aspirations which form such alluring 'features in the Spectator ever Welceme au i Australian &it of touch With World-Wide acthrities. It was most exhilarating to read the dominant declaration that the Spectator still stood for the principles of
Free Trade. - . •
Thoughtful Australians are gradually beginning to realize that our high tariff is proving a -positive hindrance to the extension and: development of -the great natural and real sources of productive wealth- of -Australia; and that any adoption of Protection in Great Britain will bring about_ Me/bourne. , F. T..11.1CIElrORD.
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