THE LESSER EVIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 4 October 1909, Page 7

THE LESSER EVIL.

■ TARIFF REFORM,/ { ; :, : ANTI-SOCIALIST FREE-FOODERS. LORD HUGH CECIL EXPLAINS, TO THE I":. . , . : ,; "SPECTATOR." ,/ (By Teleffraph-Preea..-. Aaaoolalioh-Ooprright.) ■'. '■ ■ (Rec. October 3, 5.5 p.m.) •..:.. London, October 2. In a letter to tho "Spectator" (Unionist Free-trado paper) L6rd Hugh Cecil (who is a brother of Lord Edbert Cecil, leader of the Unionist Free-fooders, and who.intends to stand for Oxford University at next election) dedares:— ■ .■■'■ . ' .'• ■ "The evils of Tariff Reform are less: gravo and less irremediablo than those Which would spring. from thy Government's Financo Bill. For the present, even the interests of Freetrado must bo subordinate to, escaping : the dangers of Socialism." ..;; Q. : . ■ '• . Lord Hugh Cecil hopes that all Unionist Fret-traders :aml moderato Liberals will, concentrate to' svppdrt. the: House of. Lords'in winning-the fcrst pitched battle in the campaign against Collectivism. ~ , . . ' ■ . ■ :[Lord Hugh Cecilmay have been taking a leaf out of the .book of that other Free-trader, Lord Eosebery, who;declared last year that Socialism is.a greater evil than a tariff, and Who took the , same lino. of argument at Birmingham recently, when. ranging.; himself against the Liberal Budgat. Some nf the Unionist Freetraders ~ are only Free-fooders. ' Their • leader, Lord Robert Cecil himself, is a Eetaliationist. It was along the road of Retaliation that Mr.' Balfour travelled to his present attitude towards Tariff.'Reform.] '.■' , . ..■.:.-.. <