3 FEBRUARY 1917, Page 3

In our Constitution at present there is no veto at

all. The veto of the Crown has been dead for two hundred years. The veto of the House of Lords died under the Parliament Act, We must now restore the veto power into the only hands really competent to wield such power—the hands of the people themselves. The nation and the democracy, and with them popular liberty, arc not safe till the Poll of the People is operative in this country, and the Legislature has been placed under reasonable control. We are afraid, however, that as things go we shall have to leave the Referendum, like Woman Suffrage, to the next Parliament.