17 DECEMBER 1910, Page 15

INDECOROUS LANGUAGE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

Sfu,—Will you allow me to call attention to the very grave effect which the use of vulgar and personal invective is likely to produce in our Colonial Legislatures ? It is notorious that the members of these Legislatures are sometimes given to regrettably strong language ; but hitherto it has always been possible for those who object to such language to state that such indecorum would not be tolerated in the great Mother of Parliaments ; and it is hard to make people in this country understand the weight attached by our kinsmen over the sea to the example of public men in this country. It may be added that the peasantry of England have no admiration for