Last Link of Empire
(To the Editor.) Sir, — The following additional remarks on the above subjeet, which formed one of your sub-leaders in Tues- - j day 'a Herald-Tribune, may be of interest to your readers. They are from the pen of W. E. Gladstone and were written in 1878: — 4 1 The origdnal authorship of the repre- - I sentative system is commonly accorded to the English race. More clear and indisputable is its title to . the great political disco-very of Constitutional I liingship; and a very great discovery Idt is . . . In that important branch of its utility which is negative, it completely serves the purposes of the many and rising colonies of Great Britain and saves them all the perplexities and penils attendant upon sucj cessiona to the headship of the Executive. It presents to them, as it does to us, the" symbol of unity,. and, the object /of all our political veneration, which we love to find rather in a. person than in an a^stract entity like the State." — Yours, etc., . AGUE. Waipawa, May 14, 1937.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 103, 18 May 1937, Page 8
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