" WHO SAID JOB' "
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR, I hope you can find space to confer a deserved im- mortality on the enclosed extract from the Daily News of Thursday, May 11th.
" WHO SAID JOB
"I may mention in conclusion that the Soares controversy re-
coiled this afternoon with crushing force on the heads of the Tories, with their cries of `job' against Mr. Lloyd George. Mr. Swift MacNeill drew out the fact that the private secretary of the late Lord Salisbury was appointed to this very office of Assistant Comptroller of National Debt. What, however, was quite right in the case of Lord Dunsandle—without legal experience—is quite wrong for Sir Ernest Soares, with legal experience—especially according to the views of Mr. Peel, who waxed wonderfully virtuous."
Apparently it is a sufficient defence of a particularly scan- dalous job to point out that the other side committed a similar one in 1888. Doubtless when Mr. Peel's friends have their next innings they will find the Soares case a valuable precedent; and both sides will bandy formal recriminations with a pleasing sense of having played the game in accordance with the true spirit of the rules.—I am, Sir, &c., Magdalen College, Oxford.
HERBERT A. SMITH.
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