THE RIGHT ISSUE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SracrAros."] SIR,—The exhibition of political trepidation by Members of Parliament who have shrunk from voting against measures which they believed to be wrong from fear of a portion of their constituents is surely serious. It betokens the loss of legislative independence. With the Upper House reduced to a shadow, and the Lower House reduced to a set of political telephones, where will you be ? Greatly, it would seem, at the mercy of local agitation. The Lords seem to have dealt weakly with the Pension Bill. Surely they should have refused to pass it till it had been submitted to the country. However, you have now got on the right issue in your conflict with the revolutionist party ; the issue which, it seemed, ought to have been welcomed and pressed as soon as it had been raised by Sir Hem-y Campbell-Bannerman, that of an effective Upper House. If the majority of the nation in number and influence is still anti-revolutionist, as surely it must be, this is the broad and vital issue on which it can be rallied.—I am,
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