ENGLISH SUPERIORITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 356, 6 April 1910, Page 6

ENGLISH SUPERIORITY.

A -Renter message reports the following excerpt from the German Premiers speech:—

"Gentlemen, we have just witnessed ■the course of a.n electoral contest of unexampled passion in England. The contestants wielded in it weapons at least as sharp as those in use in this country. Well, in an election that may be so. A century-old political education and culture, however, prevent Englishmen from dragging political or even religior-- animosity into ' personal or social inn tiers. ''The Englishman does not appraise the worth of ::n En according to whether his politic: l ! or religious ideas are identical with 1..4 own. We unfortunately have not made so much progress." ■Parliaments were no longer, he continued, as formerly, centres of parliamentary education. The democratisation of the franchise appeared to result in the hrutalisation and degradation of political manners. (Shouts of assent and disapproval). The Prussian Franchise Bill had evoked so much interest in the Empire generally because many people wanted Prussia to he so democratised by her franchise that the destinies of the Empire should be determined bv a democratised Federal Council. To such an outcome they were opposed. The tendency of Germany to split up had made ner the plaything of foreign interests. secret ballot, the Chancellor added, undeniably helps to make a morally and intellectually weaker class of elector, less free against material influences, presonal discontent, and the like.