21 MAY 1910, Page 12

FACTION-FIGHT OR LEGISLATION ?

[TO THE EDITOR OP TEN " SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—I send you a slip cut from one of the best, and perhaps least partisan, of our Canadian journals. Perfectly true is the picture it presents of the action of party government here. But it is a picture, not of the deliberations of a National Council, but of a continual battle of factions, whose object is not sound legislation so much as victory over each other. This will be your Constitution when the House of Lords is abolished or reduced to a practical nonentity. To replace the House of Lords by a National Council, qualified for its duties, national or Imperial, and clear of the faction-fight, ought surely to be your aim.—I am, Sir, &c., Toronto. GOLDWIN SMITH.