In addition to this, a man is to be qualified
for a vote who occupies for the purpose of his business, profession, or trade any premises of not less than £10 a year value. The only other qualification for a vote is a degree at a University. The principle of " One vote one value " is very drastically applied se far as Great 33ritain is concerned. The problem of the overt repreeentation. of Ireland, however, is left entirely asidee Possibly that was necessary in the very peculiar circumstances in !which the.Confereuce sat, but at the seine time it must not make us blind to the fact that the endowment of Ireland with a prerogative vote _Las been, and continues to be, the most crying of all the electoral scandals from which the nation has suffered. If the new scheme is adopted, the Irish voter -will still have on an average about three or four times the electoral power possessed by the ordinary English voter.
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