[To THE ED/TOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, — " A Moderate Liberal,"
in your issue of the 16th inst., follows Mr. Walker, of the Yorkshire " 99 " Club. He does not like the Budget, and he does not like some of the speeches made in its support, but he will back up the present clever and unscrupulous wirepullers who have captured the Liberal machine, through twenty such Budgets (presumably each worse than its predecessor), rather than let in Mr. Balfour and the Tories. Was I wrong in last week describing this as a counsel of despair ? For what else is it ? What does it come to ? Simply that we are to have no faith in truth and justice (not to mention their divine Founder), but are to accept, and indeed champion, a course we know to be evil for fear something worse should befall us. Was ever a more craven policy advocated ? Search history through, and you will find that those who have adopted it have always had cause bitterly to repent their want of faith and courage, while over and over again have events justified these grand lines of Tennyson:— "And because right is right, to follow right
Is wisdom in the scorn of consequence."
As an advanced (and not what is known as a moderate) Liberal, 1 would suggest to all those Liberals who perceive the injustice of this Budget that their duty calls them to support in every way possible Mr. Harold Cox in his gallant fight against the gross and tyrannical injustice of Mr. Lloyd George and his faction.—I am, Sir, &c., &sax.
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