We congratulate Major Morrison-Bell, the enterprising Unionist Member for East
Devon, on having most efficiently called attention to the scandals connected with not only the over-representation of Ireland and the under-representation of England, but the gross anomalies in representation within England, Ireland, and Scotland. He has constructed a series of maps having a small pillar placed on each constituency. The pillars are made to a scale of half an inch for every 5,060 voters. The result, as one looks at the maps,, is that in certain constituencies the pillar is hardly visible above the ground, while in other cases it towers like a factory chimney. The London map shows at a glance how monstrously unfair is our present distribution of seats. One sees St. George's-in-the-East like a daisy on the grass, while Romford and Wandsworth show like asparagus. We wish Major Morrison-Bell could pack his maps on a caravan and tour with them throughout the United Kingdom. They should convert people at sight to the principle of one vote, one value, and make them recognize how monstrous is the determina- tion of the Liberals to abolish the minor scandal of plural voting while they leave the major scandal untouched, merely because to alter the minor scandal would help them electomlly, while to put an end to the major scandal would be injurious to their party prospects. It is the meanest piece of political opportunism ever contemplated.
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