30 APRIL 1910, Page 2

Dealing next with the Constitutional question, he declares that he

is prepared to unite with any one who will take a broad and statesmanlike view of the situation. Fiscal policies may come and go, but once make inroads into the British Constitution and the damage which will ensue will be beyond repair. It is a great pleasure to us to have so weighty and independent an endorsement of the policy taken up by, the Spectator. The fact that Lord Balfour of Burleigh is willing, as we are willing, to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Tariff Reformers—for that is what his letter comes to—in order to prevent the ruin of the Constitution and a plunge into predatory Socialism is a most significant fact.