Stn,—I am interested in your leading article on Party Politics,
and if one result of the war should be a wider representation of different views, it may prove to be a great bl:ssing. Your summary of aims, desired I hope by all parties, following. the words " common sense " in your second paragraph, is specially good, as is the suggestion of government by agreement and consultation. Our country seems agreed just now that Might does not constitute Right, that Power carries responsibilities and duties with it, and that Righteousness, and specially Truth, must be maintained. It would help towards such conditions if the appeal to Self-interest were less apparent— and if people were more concerned with the needs of others than with their own.
Perhaps it raises the whole question whether Democracy is the best form of government—at least whether the faults of his system (we talk flippantly about being governed by our Washerwomen) could not be adjusted. But this touches on our whole system of education, which is another matter.—Yours, &c..
Dormy, Pendleton Road, Redhill. C. C. BROWN DOUGLAS.
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