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however. Nevertheless he would
readily degrade the house by appointing
bad men. If we had had a
nominee house temp. Darling or
Bowen it would have become equivalent
to no house at all: for there would
have been a swamping.

If ever you have an elective Upper
House take care if you can that it
shall be a sine quâ non that two responsible
ministers shall be chosen from it.

It is a two-edged weapon. In the
forming of a ministry the Upper House
has to be considered, and the men
who take office have to satisfy their
constituents, who using a higher suffrage
than that for the Lower House afford
a guarantee that the new ministry
is in accord with more than one class
in the country. The ministry also is
insensibly coerced into trying to be in
harmony with two houses instead of
thinking only of one. You can
hardly imagine what evils we have
experienced here from the absence
of so simple a provision. It was