A WAVE OF REVOLUTION.
Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, in the "Socialist Review." discerns in the present condition of Europe one ot tho»e periods of unrest from which in bygone times revolutions arose. This revolutionary tendency has ap* peared 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 frameofjmind since 1885. He also opposes proportional representation. He maintains that our existing system undoubtedly favours the raiuority 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 Parlia r ments, payment of members, and frequent redistribution.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9651, 16 November 1909, Page 4
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184A WAVE OF REVOLUTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9651, 16 November 1909, Page 4
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