Prestige of Parliament
"You ask the average man if lie has listened 1 in to Parliament lately, and see what he says,” stated Mr. E. L. Adams when addressing the Gisborne Rotary Club today on the ideals of democracy. “Yes,” he added, when his remark was greeted with laughter, “it will probably be your opinion, too,” He asked the gathering to compare the prestige of Parliament now with what it was in the time of Gladstone and Disraeli. The party discipline now was very strict and a lot of talk which got nowhere was directed against a previous speaker. One might listen in to Parliament for half ar. hour without finding out what the discussion was all about. In Gladstone's time the British Parliament was held in the highest festeem throughout the world, but things had , deteriorated since then.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 5 August 1941, Page 9
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139Prestige of Parliament Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 5 August 1941, Page 9
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