PARLIAMENTARY LABOUR MEMBERS.
Press AsMcUtion—By Telegraph—Copyright Sydney, July 31. The Daily TeUgraph, referring to the remarks of the English Press adverse to increasing the number of labour members in the colonial Parliaments, says that the comments of alarmists abroad and timid persons nearer home greatly exaggerate the possible harm of the new political elements. The experience of the Australasian colonies in Parliamentary labour representation is greater than that of any other part of the world and distinctly not such as to cause a scare. New Zealand gives most completely a favourable illustration of how the labour vote may afiect "national affairs. No impartial observer need fear that the people are going to lose their heads and elect destroying revolutionaries. Referring to the rejection of the Lottery Bill, it says that the sharp rejection of such a proposal emanating from the representatives of wealth makes the labour members appear the faithful guardians of consistent legislation and public morality whatever their delusions and mistakes in other matters.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9172, 1 August 1895, Page 5
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