THE SPECTATOR" AND SIR HERBERT SAMUEL [To the Editor of
the SPECTATOR.' SIR,—However regrettable the opposition to Sir Herbert Samuel may be it hardly deserves the expressions of contempt in which the Spectator has indulged.
Sir H. Samuel's Free Trade utterances show that he does not fully support the " Doctor's Mandate," which includes the right to impose a tariff, and his attack on Sir John Simon for having preferred Conservative opponents to Socialists is a reminder of his own attitude in the past.
Conservative Free Traders, such as myself, distrust the economic orthodoxy of those who have so often departed from it when Party advantage was to be gained. The recent " Road Scheme "-and legislation of the ninepenee for fourpence order sit strangely on the political heirs of Cobden and Peel. Can it be wondered that Sir H. Samuel excites distrust in Tories whether of Protectionist or of Free Trade views ? One thing we all agree on—that Free Trade and Individualism rim in double harness. The men who made trade free knew that. Conservative opposition to the National candidate in Mossley (Lancashire) is worse than the very human action of Darwen
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