LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
[TO TILE EDITOR OF TRH " gl• EcrA To tt:•]
have not presumed, let me assure your correspondent Mr. Whitaker (Spectator, September 7th), to settle the title of a reformed House of Lords. Nor have I ventured to formu- late any specific plan of reconstruction, though I hinted at the line which the measure might take. These are matters for statesmanship, if, in an atmosphere of party, statesman- ship can be found. I have only pleaded for an Upper House strong enough in the respect and confidence of the nation to control sudden impulses and save ill-informed masses under demagogic leadership from wrecking the country, the Empire, and themselves. If statesmanship could have prevailed under the party system, the reconstruction of the Upper House of Parliament might have preceded the extension of the suffrage.
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