Will Some Free Trader Reply?

Mr. W. Farrar Ecroyd, a niomber of the manufacturing aristocraey of (.reat Britaiu, conimences a letter to the London Timos in these worda : To the Editor of tiie Times. : Sut: The grievous injiiry iuflicted by the McKinley tariff on many of our industries will probably basten the decline of the Cobden Club : for it will be diffleult to go on much longer proclaiming the approaching world-wide triumph of free trade or the impending ruin oí protectionist nations, in the face of the great and continuing prosperity of the United States - the most resolute and impenitent of them all.