A WAVE OF REVOLUTION.
Mr Ramsay MacDonald, in the Socialist Review, discejrns in the present condition of Europe one of those periods of unrest from which in bygone times revolutions arose. This revolutionary tendency has appeared in France in the Premiership of M. Briand, the Socialist; in Germany in the success of the Socialist candidate at Neustadt; in the Swedish strike, and in the Spanish uprisings. These two last he considers to be essentially alike. England, too, he maintains, has been stirred in the same direction by the attack of the dukes and other landlords on the Budget, which has produced a very strong popular reaction against them. He does not remember the people having been in so revolutionary a frame of mind since 1885. He also opposes proportional representation. He maintains that our existing system undoubtedly favours minority of strong political determination. The system of proportional representation favours minorities belonging to the political class of mugwump. The former minority is to be preferred. The democratic reply to the case for proportional representation is shorter Parliaments, payment of members, and frequent redistribution.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 506, 13 November 1909, Page 3
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182A WAVE OF REVOLUTION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 506, 13 November 1909, Page 3
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