A TWO - CHAMBER LEAGUE.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Will you spare me space to urge that a League should be formed of two-Chamber men and women, to resist the attack of unconsidered and hasty revolution? We are con- fronted with a very grave danger, the more grave because working in secret. In this Parliament the Labour men and the Nationalists can, if they wish, turn the scale ; both parties have axes to grind, both are composed of keen, resolute, tenacious men, both have votes invaluable to a Government in straits. Much business may be done over a luncheon-table. If I am asked "What good would such a League do ? " I reply that there is a great body of moderate opinion in the country which dis- trusts and dislikes the stated intentions of the men in power, and which (as Lord Rosebery said the other night) only needs concentration and organisation to be a power in the land, but without it is powerless. I venture to prophesy that the formation of such a League would mean the adhesion of many thousands in a week, of perhaps a million in a month, and that such an organised body would speak with decision in a political crisis. I therefore appeal to some of the men "of light and leading" in the country to form and to head it without delay and without hesitation. Organised we should be strong, unorganised we are a fortuitous concourse of atoms. It was a great Englishman who said : "Violence can destroy, but it cannot construct."—I am, Sir, &c., [Surely it would be better to join an existing organisation than to found a new League. We have already too many such bodies. The British Constitution Association (23 Charing Cross)—its new president is Mr. Harold Cox; its late president was Lord Balfour of Burleigh—is a body which strongly advocates the maintenance of two Chambers. We would therefore advise " Senex" and those who agree with him to write to the secretary and tell him they desire to join that organisation.—En. Spectator.]
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