We note with satisfaction that the Observer of last Sunday
declared that " Tariff Reformers will never barter the Union for Tariff Reform ; they will never take office in dependence on the Nationalist vote ; and they would resist to the last that inconceivably gross bargain if any man should ever be found at once mad enough and bad enough to propose it." That is excellent, and disarms our criticism of the statement in the Observer to which we took exception. For ourselves, we desire to say—end we feel sure that here we represent the Unionist Free-traders as a body—that they would never barter the Union for Free-trade; that they would never take office in dependence on the Nationalist vote; and that they would " resist to the last that inconceivably gross bargain if any man should ever be found at once mad enough and bad enough to propose it." We cannot continue a controversy winch we are afraid many of our readers may think has already occupied too much of our space.
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