SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN RUSSIA.
Speaking recently in the House of Commons on the system of Government in Russia, Sir Edward Grey, Britain's Foreign Minister, said: "With full knowledge of th* reports which we have been receiving for the last two years, I say that the system of Government in Russia has been getting emphatically better. And the evidence is there. There is a Duma in Russia to-day. The complaint is that it is not elected on a democratic franchise. How long has
this House been elected on a democratic franchise?, Within my lifetime the change has come to what we should now call a democratic franchise. Are there no other countries in Europe of high standing whose parliaments are not elected on a democratic franchise? You can easily find other instances. Three years ago in Russia there was no Duma, constitution or Parliament of this kind. There is to-day a Duma which, even if it be not a democratic franchise, criticises the Government, voles money, and sometimes refuses to vote money, and is composed of different parties, some of them -advanced parties, and many opposed to the Government."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9160, 6 August 1908, Page 4
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189SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN RUSSIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9160, 6 August 1908, Page 4
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