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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5634, 19 September 1889, Page 2

It has been suggested that if even* elector were compelled to watch tho proceedings of Parliament for a whole woek during session time that it would tend greatly to an improved selection of members when a general election uame round. It would be necessary for tho thorough Parliamentary education of tho elector that ho should not miss a minute of each day's proceedings. Ho should have a mentor at his side to point out to him the different members, and tho motives which actuate their speeches. He should bo told thut because tho uiumber for A strenuously opposed a useless railway, a valuable public work that he desired for his own part of the country was stonewalled. Neither should ho be left in ignorance that because the member for B was personally unpopular, a useful measure that he introduced was thrown out. i Tho enquiring elector would be "full up'! of Parliament in a week, and while wondering how any independent man could bo induced to waste his time \>y becoming a member, he would discover how largo a part of tho littleness •of human nature outers into tho legislation of the country. Give to every elector this experience of our Parliament, and the chances are that there would lie a universal demand for tho abolition of tho institution on its existing basis.