THE REFERENDUM.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1
SIR,—The letter of Mr. Alfred Wheeler in your last issue affords a very apt illustration of the suppressio yeri which, unfortunately, played so prominent a part in the tactics of the Liberal Party at the last election. I did not state, as Mr. Wheeler implies, that the gentlemen who are now opposed to the Referendum supported Local Option, but stated that opposition to the Referendum was based on the ground that it was too expensive and also too difficult to understand, whereas when the same gentlemen were advocating Local Option they made no reference to these objections. I now challenge Mr. Wheeler to give the name of any Member of Parliament who supports the Referendum who opposed Local Option on any of the grounds above named.—I am, Sir, &a.,
Blagdon House, Stoke Bishop.
HUGH L. P. LowE.
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