FIRST THINGS FIRST !
[To the Editor of TIIE SPECTATOR.] 'wrote, on April 20th : " In our mad (voting) system, nobody's vote is worth a jot, unless it is cast for a winner. . . . In every election, millions of'electors must have known, like me, that their votes . were just wasted. Why should. I go on, when- my countrymen treat- me and .my considered judgement—and millions with me and their considered judge- ments—with such unmerited contempt ? "
Clearly, my protest was against a system which has unfairly disfranchized me all my life, and millions Of others—a system, too, which (as Lord Snowden- recently. pointed out) dangles before all minority candidates a gambling chance of slipping in by a lucky division of votes between their rivals, and which simply rewards political anarchy by making at every
election the votes of millions fantastically ineffective and un- certain, and thus undermines, and weakens, the ordinary man's interest in politics, which is, in its turn, the driving force of democracy.
Mr. Wainwright's criticism is based on the present bad
system.L—I am, Sir, &c., ERNEST A. CAVE. 11 Parkfield Road, Ickenham, Middlesex.
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