LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
A CURRENCY COMMISSION.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sia,—I trust you will pursue the suggestion you made recently in the Spectator for the appointment of an impartial Com- mission to explore the currency situation and its relation- ship to unemployment. A representative Commission com- posed of men of common sense and experience in weighing pros and cons, such as you suggest, and before whom experts, both theoretical and practical, can appear as witnesses, is,
I venture to think, more likely to arrive at a sound work- able conclusion than one composed of experts with their preconceived notions. As you truly say, the place for them is in the witness chair. But may I make the further sugges- tion that the Commission should also bring experts of diver- gent views before them simultaneously, so that the one may cross-examine the other. Such cross-examination need not be of too formal a character, but more of the nature of a discussion, which ought to prove of considerable assist- ance to the Commission in arriving at a definite conclusion. It might even result in the divergence of opinion among the experts themselves being narrowed, if not altogether
[We have touched on this most vital matter in our leading columns and will only say here that we are at one with Mr. Darling's very interesting proposal that the experts should, as it were, debate the case before the Tribunal.—En. Spectator.]
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