22 JANUARY 1910, Page 13

THE DUTY OF UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."'

SIR, In your able article on " The Duty of Unionist Free- Traders " in last week's issue five evils are noted as connected with voting for the Liberals. But should not a sixth be added,—viz., the threatened hostility to the Church and her schools ? Some of us deeply regretted advice given before the last General Election, when Free-trade was apparently con- sidered more important than freedom of religious teaching and justice to the Church and her property.—I am, Sir, &c.,

AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.

[We certainly should have added Disestablishment and an unjust solution of the education problem as a sixth evil had we intended to make the list exhaustive. Our intention, however, was only to deal with the more immediate con- sequences of a vote of confidence in the present Government. —ED. Fpectatorl