THE WORKING MAN AS M.H.R.
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Paljierston North, June 11,
The “Lardean Eagle,” a journal at Ferguson, British Columbia, publishes, a statement from Mr Frank G. Carpenter, representing tire Seattle P.I. in Wellington, about an interview with Mr Tregear, the head of the Labour Bureau in New Zealand, in reference to working men representatives in Parliament. Mr Tregear is reported as saying that in most eases the labour representatives stick to their class after being elected, but in some cases they do not. “In the latter instances,” says Mr Tregear, “(he working man starts in enthusiastically. Ho is all for labour and nothing for capital. He is soon corrupted, however, by his associations with the rich. The dinners and the attentions of his wealthier Parliamentary fellows turn his head. By the end of the first session he has risen above his class, and changes his working suit for a tweed suit. At the end of the next session you find him in black broadcloth, with tall hat, and there after he probably votes with capitalists. As a whole, however, our working men make fairly good representatives.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 June 1901, Page 4
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188THE WORKING MAN AS M.H.R. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 June 1901, Page 4
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