MR. CARTWRIGIIT AT THAME.
[TO TIM EDITOR OF TRIG "SPECTATOR."]
Stit,—As you have done inc the honour to refer to some observa- tions of iniue in reference to strikes at an agricultural meeting in Tirane, I beg to say that you have been misled by a condensed report as to the meaning of my remarks. I did not pronounce any opinion as to the intrinsic right or wrong of strikes. I called them a barbarous application of force, because I believe the ques- tion at issue might be settled satisfactorily without recourse to violence, if only and and men would be content to regulate their actions and their demands in accordance with what is com- manded by the fundamental principles of political economy and justice. But the drift of my few observations addressed to an agricultural audience were not to dilate on the horrors of strikes, but to draw attention to their inevitable effect on the Labour market generally, and to the fact that from the solidarity which exists amongst all industrial classes, the agriculturalists, though probably the last to feel it, must be yet prepared for the natural consequences of this movement on the wages of agricultural
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