Mr. Henry Chaplin has an excellent letter in Monday's Morning
Post correcting a statement made by Lord Willoughby de Broke at Macclesfield on Friday. Mr. Chaplin points out that while convinced that no Unionist Government would ever allow the Parliament Act to remain on the Statute Book as part of our permanent legislation if and when they returned to power, the policy advocated by Lord Willoughby de Broke with regard to that measure would have rendered such action impossible. Had that policy succeeded the Unionists, if returned with a majority, could no doubt pass a Bill to modify or amend or repeal the Parliament Act, but it would be rejected and immediately thrown out in the Lords by the hostile majority created by Lord Willoughby de Broke and his friends. A precisely similar fate, he goes on to show, would await Tariff Reform. This view, Mr. Chaplin continues, is rejected by Lord Willoughby de Broke on the ground of his belief that the peers would never have been created, though he admits that this is purely a matter of opinion. Mr. Chaplin retorts, "It is a matter of knowledge, not of opinion." and very properly condemns the attempt of Lord Willoughby de Broke to discredit the specific statements of Lord Crewe and Lord Morley—" men in the service of the Crown, and as honourable as himself "—on a great historical occasion.
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