BRITISH POLITICS.
PAPER CONSTITUTIONS.
MR KEIR HARDIE'S PROPHECY,
United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received May 3, 9.30 p.m. LONDuN, May 3.
Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Tony-, pandy, said an ideal compromise would be the dropping of the Parliamentary (Veto) Bill upon the understanding that the Lords accepted the veto resolutions. He did not want a written constitution. The moment the powers°and duties of either the Lords or Common? were defined by act of Parliament iresh tyranny would be established. Ihe working of paper constiutions in the United States and the British colonies had shown how reactionary such documents could become. Loyalty to the Throne was a great superstition. It was very advantageous to the ruiing powers, but it mattered nothing to the working classes whether the official head of the State was a King or a President. The .conjunction of the Trade Unions and the Labour party in Great Britain would rne day become vha t the Labour party in Australia had become-the governing power of the nation.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10035, 4 May 1910, Page 5
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171BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10035, 4 May 1910, Page 5
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