The Conference of the British Constitutional Association, held at Oxford,
concluded its sittings on Saturday last with a meeting presided over by Mr. Ryder, at which a member read a paper on the practical work of the Association. In the end, the meeting adopted the following as the chief practical points with which the Association had to deal :— "(1) To insist that the rates shall be paid directly by the occupier, and not be compounded by the owner; (2) to oppose State-provided universal old-age pensions ; (3) to oppose feeding school-children out of the rates or taxes ; (4) to oppose the demoralisation of the poorer labourers by the endowment of unemployment ; (5) to maintain a strict instead of a lax Poor Law ; (6) to prevent the destruction of the family by Socialistic legislation ; (7) to maintain the individualist principle as opposed to the Socialist principle as the foundation of our Government and national policy."
During the discussion Professor Dicey dwelt upon the im- portance of the adoption of the Referendum, to which allusion had been made by the reader of the paper.
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