Mr. Churchill, who wound up Thursday's debate for the Government,
after painting a terrific picture of the tremendous power of correction and discrimination which would be left to the Peers under the Government proposal, and after denouncing Lord Rosebery, Mr. Harold Cox, the editor of the Spectator, and Lord Hugh Cecil for deriding the party system, declared that no other system would secure the stability of democratic institutions. As a matter of fact, we agree with Mr. Churchill in believing that system to be necessary and inevitable, but surely that should not prevent us from mitigating its evils and giving free play in the Constitution to the correctives of the party system. Mr.' Churchill seems to argue that because we shall always have the party system with us in some form or other, we cannot have too much of it. We confess in this respect to being moderate drinkers rather than either 'teetotalers br dipsomaniacs.
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