THE ADVANCE OF SOCIALISM.
[To TER EDITOR OF TRY " BrzarAros.") Sue—The writer who signs himself as "A Moderate Liberal" in last week's Spectator is mistaken. He is probably anything but what his name implies. I personally know a number of Liberals, Nonconformists—as I am myself—who are quite out of sympathy with the present Government. Whether they will all go to the extent of voting against them I cannot say, but at least three of us will do so, and we have been until this Government's Radical-Labour-Socialistic legislation and finance lifelong Liberals, and one is a "passive resister," 80 that, bad as he considered Mr. Balfour's Bill, he most certainly considers the Government's record much more harmful and injurious; and I feel sure he will do all he CM against them at the next election. For my own part, I should like to assure "A. Moderate Liberal" that I would any day and anywhere prefer Lord Hugh Cecil, although he is a High Churchman, to Mr. Lloyd George, although he is a Non-
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