The Hare System of Representation

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 8, 28 June 1884, Page 2

The Hare System of Representation

: ♦ . ;■, Mr John Bright has no belief in the Hare py.steni .of representation. .J!o a gentlemen who wrote for his opinion about it, he has replied : -" 1 think Mr Hare's plan more of a 'fad' than any other yet submitted to the public; and it ha* 'this disadvantage that soar eel j anyone can understand it. It aims at making Parliament an exact photograph of every phase of public opinion, and under it thtre is no fancy or folly irhieh might not, and probably would, hare its representative in the House. Parliament would be broken up into bony cliques, led by the political lunatics who would haveentrknee within its walls.. My advice is, keep to the old ways; they are safest, and the * wayfaring man, though a 'fool fin some sense), shall not err therein.' I hare known several or a few of Mr Hare's supporters;, not one. of them has seemed to me to possess the common sense whiek is ' as- useful" and netieVsary. jjraf lejgis* lation ,and - GoTernment as t in * the ordinary pursuits of * life. '' I lan in favour of the Constitution which?" has come down from our forefathers, with such amendments as oircumttauces and our experience seem to warrant. ' I think they would have looked on Mr Hare's scheme with mingled amazement and ridicule. You have asked mp opinion* and I hare given it. I do not see the the perfection which. its friends claim for the patent constitution of Mr Hare."