We sincerely hope that supporters of the Referendum will urge
upon the Government the importance of making this perfect consummation of democracy part of their scheme. If the ultimate verdict in disputes of great national importance is left to the people themselves- " Will you, or will you not have this Bill which has been passed through all its stages ? Yes, or No ? "—it will not very much matter how the relations between the two Houses are technically arranged. The people will decide in every contentious case. The Labour Party intensely dislikes the Referendum because its results are generally on the side of caution. That, however, is not a demo- cratic argument. It merely means that the leaders of Labour prefer their own decisions to the Will of the People. We have written further on the whole subject in our first leading article.
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