LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
CO-OPERATION FOR THE ARMY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SLR,—Mr. Fortescue's letter in the Spectator of May 18th is, as you say, striking, but his blows are delivered wildly and without knowledge. Whatever may be the faults of the War Office, it is innocent of those Mr. Fortescue imputes to it ; and whatever may be the advantages of the Canteen and Mess Co-operative Society, it is a middleman's association and nothing else. I would ask your readers to withhold their judgment until he can tell them, as I am sure he cannot now, that he has carefully studied both sides of the complex question on which he writes so trenchantly. Mr. Fortescue tries to exclude officers from his denunciations, but they manage canteens, and there are many of them who are not ignorant, and neither cheats nor robbers, who do not wish to leave their canteens in the hands of the Society recommended by Mr. Fortescue.—I am, Sir, &c.,
AN OFFICER INTERESTED IN CANTEENS.
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