AN IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
SIR GEORGE REID'S VIEWS. By TeleErajli—Press Association—Copyright London, October 5. Sir George Reid (High Commissioner for Australia)in,an article in the "Evening News," ( states: "For many years to come any. attempt to establish an Imperial Parliament worthy of tho name will be rejected. It has been my life-long conviction that the ties now binding the subjects of tho King and Emperor cannot radically be changed without infinite care, because the present looso condition of things works well on the wliolo. An Imperial Parliament is a noble idea, but before accepting it as an ideal tlio question of its practicability must bo considered. For overy white subject of tho King and Emporor there are six coloured. The problem of legislating would, be' of great' complexity and practically impossible, as the races 'at# 'ill different stages :of evolution. Formal ties do not count half ; as much u> sentimental onesi'i
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2586, 7 October 1915, Page 5
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149AN IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2586, 7 October 1915, Page 5
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