Now Howard Vincent is known to all men as one of the people who speak in season and out of season, when once they mount their hobby.

The other day I heard of a bimetallist who was so fond of discussing bimetallism that the railway carriage, in which he went to town every morning, was always left vacant for him; nobody could stand him any longer.

Similar is the attitude of the House of Commons to Howard Vincent.

Fair Trade is his craze.

He proposes it at Tory Conferences--much to the dismay of Tory wire-pullers; he gets it into the most unlikely discussions in the House of Commons; and all the world laughs at him as though he were to propose the restoration of slavery, or chaos come again.