22 DECEMBER 1923, Page 11

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS In her analysis

of the attitude of the public towards the Bishop of Oxford's Liquor (Popular Control) Bill does -Lady Astor seriously wish us to believe that in temperance matters there are only two opposing camps ? If so, she over- looks a third, the roll of which quite outnumbers the total content of both that she mentions. It mobilizes that vast army of people who—unperturbed alike by leaders of the Church, brewers or politicians—have an obstinate preference for the regulation of their private affairs by themselves.— I am, Sir, &c.,