The clamour for the revision of the Osborne judgement has awakened an echo—not altogether sympathetic, but still 'a0 echo—from the Imperial Merchant Service Guild, so organization that seeks to advance the interests of certi-floated officers in the merchant service, 'A long letter has been addressed to the Press by Mr. T. W. Moore, ¥.2.0.8., the Secretary of the Guild, in which he contends that special Parliamentary representation is not a matter that alone concerns trade unions. After pointing out that while the sailors and firemen had one representative in the Inst House of Commons—thongh even he was primarily a member of the Labour Party—he shows that the thirty thousand certi-floated officers of the merchant service bad not only no representative, bat did not even a vote. Mr. Moore explains that the latter deprivation did not render them disconsolate, but urges that they should have at least one representative in Parliament, for whose support they would cheerfully provide, While, as a matter of abstract equity, some sympathy may be felt for those for whom Mr. Moore speaks, to alter the electoral laws so s to permit the representation of special interests would be disastrous—if it were possible, Parliamentary institutions move slowly towards perfection and the work of orderly isolation cannot be hastened, though it may be hindered. Assuredly it would be hindered, if Members of Parliament, instead, of being sent to grind the national ax Weetininster, wore each eutrasted with the eberpening of a, comparative unimportant, batchet. The reversal of idyll condition pictured by Macaulay Then none was for a party, then wore for the State, reading party in the scase of less, would be brought sbout aod oer last parliameatry elute would be infinitely worse than oar first.
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