24 FEBRUARY 1912, Page 14

OUR PARTY LEADERS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—In a letter received a few days ago from a friend who is a large employer of labour in the iron trade in the Birming- ham district the following passage occurs, which seems to me to embody the views of many perplexed but patriotic Unionists

"I endorse endorse your remarks re party leaders. As you know, I am an out-and-out Tariff Reformer. But the commerce and financial stability of this country, upon which depends the prosperity of the whole community, are going to suffer more with' Lloyd Georgeism ' than from tariffs. So I say, ' Out with L. G. and his crew, and in with the Unionists, and a Referendum on Tariff Reform—for which I yearn ' " Bilton Grange, Rugby.