In the remaining part of his speech Mr. Asquith declared
that what was wanted was some system of movable or transferable registration in order to prevent men losing their votes when they moved from place to place. He was strongly in favour, he declared, of the closing of public-houses during polling time. As to the holding of all elections on one day, though he approved of curtailing the absurdly long period over which a general election lasted, he V19.13 not clear as to the possibility of holding all elections on one and the same day. We confess that we cannot follow Mr. Asquith here. If the thing can be done in America and in every continental country. it seems to us absurd to deny its possibility here. In our opinion one of the many advantages of such a proceeding would be to cheapen elections. Every day that the contests are lengthened out adds to the waste of money.
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