26 FEBRUARY 1921, Page 2

We are- glad• to see the Union's policy put forward

so clearly and ably,--but we are bound to say- that manifestoes of this kind, -which will fall chiefly- into, the -hands of party politicians, are comparatively -useless. The protests of a body like the People's Union -for Economy` get only vague promises :out • of the Government. To ensure action- the arguments employed must be of Isterner stuff. It is only the House of Commons. that can insist on the 'Government • maintaining 950 millions a. year as the datum- line- of taxation, although at.the-znonient the Government profess to have adopted it as their own. But the House of Commons will never-insist unless each -Member of Parliament has a body of men and women in his constituency banded together for the-sole object of not-only making him -put his foot on the line but making him " stay put." Next week we intend to publish a -Communication showing 'how this clearable,'

• nay • emehtial, Ithing could be acooMpliShed 'without either destroying the Government or' injuring our party system, which, in Spite' of Certain obvious faults, iseseential" in a Demo- ' oratic State.