In our opinion, the only way of making these facts
plain is for the Unionist leaders in the Lords to put forth, the more specifically the better, a clear, definite, and drastiit scheme of House of Lords reform. They will make it evident that it is not the Unionists or the Peers who stand in the way of reform, but, strange as it may seem, the Radical Party. Another point upon which the Unionist chiefs will be well advised to give a lead is the question of the Referendum. Let them make it clear that here also it is the Liberals, not their political rivals, who are the obstacles to this most democratic reform,—the only method by which it can be made certain that the will of the rpeople shall prevail, and not that of intriguers and wire- pullers, who so often usurp the forms without the substance of democracy, and indulge the license without the temper of popular sovereignty.
