THE PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION SOCIETY.
[To TRY EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR.']
STR,—In view of the importance of the Constitutional problems now under discussion, the Proportional Representation Society has issued an appeal for increased financial support, and I venture to ask the readers of the Spectator who are in sympathy with the objects of the Society to assist in making the response to that appeal as large as possible. The Society needs an augmentation of income of about £850 a year in order to enable it to carry on its work effectively. In the year 1885, which, like this year, was a period of Constitutional re. construction, the income of the Society amounted to 21,2901 we now wish to secure for it an income of £1,500 per annum. Its actual income is about £650. The results which the Society, revived in 1905, has already accomplished are con- siderable. It can point to the introduction of proportional representation for the Senatorial elections in South Africa, for the Municipal elections in Pretoria and Johannesburg, as due in part to its activity, and it has taken a considerable part in stimulating the world-wide interest in the subject, the latest manifestation of which is to be seen in the proposals under discussion in the French Chamber. It is of the utmost importance when great Constitutional changes are before the public that the claims of a just system of representation should be adequately presented to the consideration of our statesmen and electors, but it is unfortunately impossible for a non-party organisation of a political character to produce a serious effect upon public opinion without financial resources on an adequate scale. Subscriptions may be sent and cheques and postal orders made payable to the Treasurer of the Pro- portional Representation Society, 179 St. Stephen's House, Westminster Bridge, London, S.W.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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