THE WILL OF THE NATION.
[To eau EMOS 07 rat Sin,—Arising out of the interesting correspondence on this subject is the question whether a Referendum should be decided by a bare majority or by, say, a two-thirds majority. I am inclined to think that stability demands something more than "the odd man's vote." Your insistence on the Referendum as against a General Election is timely and important. Would that Mr. Sonar Law had made the same distinction! Finally, your explanation of the extraordinary repugnance of the Liberal Party to the Referendum is un- doubtedly correct—the world-old love of power. Nothing, surely, in recent affairs has been more deplorable than the clamour of Liberals for a drastic enforcement of the will of Parliament, even to the plunging of the kingdom into
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