THE PEOPLE'S WILL.
SPEECH BY MR. ASQUITH,. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright London, March 10. Mr. Asquith, in his speech at tho luncheon at Covent Garden, given in his honour by six hundred Liberals, said that the Parliament Act was a landmark recording the opening of n frcSh stage in development. Unless the people's will prevailed democracy was a farce, and they might as well throw tho whole machinery of tho elections on to the scrap heap. At two olections the Liberals had convinced their countrymen that the House of Lords was partisan and misreprosentative, a caricature of a Second Chamber. The Parliament Act was nn enormous step in advance. Much remained to bo done in the way of reforming the electoral system, making the House of Commons truly representative, and establishing a second Chamber of reasonable sizo and composition, qualified to perform its functions efficiently and impartially. The loss of recent by-elections Mr. Asquith attributed to the Tory campaign against the Insurance Act. Ho predicted that when the Tories had the cftanco they would not venture to lay a- finger on a single one of that Act's fundamental principles.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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188THE PEOPLE'S WILL. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1386, 12 March 1912, Page 5
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