PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12534, 22 June 1901, Page 3

PARLIAMENTARY PARTIES.

TO THE EDITOR. ■ Sir,—So long as human nature is what it is, it will be difficult, * suppose, to please everybody. Mr Ell is dissatisfied with our present system of government.. So ani I, and a number of others .also. Bat I am not satisfied with Mr .EH. When a youngster I was told newer to take anything from other boys that did not belong. to them. Maybe this teaching was wrong, or maybe it only applied to hoys. Of it may be that I look at things through the eye of a . needle instead of through something as large as a cannon. Wherever of whatever the fault,' I am convinced personally that Mr Ell did quite right in opposing and voting against the little, game of heads we win and tails you lose. But’ when tha gamesters said, “ Here, Ell, take your whack, it’s your own; we as honest lawmakers have said it”— I leave a blank space here; let each one fi- it. in. with his own opinion as to what he or she would have done. 'Mr Ell says the people are not represented in Parliament, their representatives toeing powerless against the domination of Ministers. We have no Democratic Parliament, neither .are we a Democracy, says our junior member. ' The old Liberal must give place to a new Liberal Party. Mr Ell believes in independence ; he cannot; therefore, logically bind himself with a bit of new party rope. If a party is deemed necessary, would it not be as well to abandon the name Liberal, as it is beginning to smell unsavoury, .for Democrat or Social Democrat? We want a new body of some kind who will their spate time and energy in an endeavour to wrench from politics the influence ‘ brought to bear on Government employees, and further to demand that the people shall be the sole controllers, instead of being controlled by one or two'men, as at present.—l am, etc., G. BARTY.