WHAT JOE CHAMBERLAIN SAID.
“In view of Mr Baldwin’s pronounce ment on the Referendum, it may be of interest to those who remember hiy father’s effort for Imperial unity to reall that in the preface to the volume of his Speeches published in November 19V03, he Avrote as folloAVS,” writes Sir Austin Chamberlain;—
“‘I have often wondered that we have never adopted the principle of the Referendum as practised in SavUzerland, and also in many parts of the United States of America. It is the only Avay in AA’hich the decision of great national questions can be separated from all the complicated issues of pjirty government. At a general election the voter is influenced by his desire to isee his oavii party in office, and partly by his views on a number of special questions, many of them purely local or even personal. If in case of a neAv policy, not necessarily political, it were possible to eliminate all side issries Ave might have a national verdict which all sections avould accept, and AA’hich would be given Avithout reference t othe perennial struggle hetAA r een the “outs” and the “ins” Avhieh i.s at present the chief occupation of political life.” ~
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1930, Page 2
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201WHAT JOE CHAMBERLAIN SAID. Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1930, Page 2
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