LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN AND TARIFF REFORM.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You strangely misconceive the meaning of the speeches delivered at Manchester by both Lord Derby and myself. Lord Derby appealed for union on the policy announced at Edinburgh by Mr. Bonar Law. He stated that that policy
was a compromise, and be urged all Unionists in this present crisis "to play the game" by accepting loyally that com- promise. For myself, if I may quote my own words, I replied as follows :—
" We, whom you have described as the extreme wing, have made our sacrifice for union, and I join with you, my lord, in the spirit in which you made it, in the appeal you have addressed to others to do their share to make this compromise a real basis of union and the real fighting policy of our party."
There is no word here of the abandonment of Tariff Reform at the next election or by the next Unionist Government. I have never suggested such a change, and, permit me to add, our leaders are not the men to submit to it.—I am, Sir, &c.,
[We have dealt with this letter in our first leading article.— ED. Spectator.]
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