DEMOCRACY OR DESPOTISM ?

Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 86, 11 April 1916, Page 5

DEMOCRACY OR DESPOTISM ?

1 BRISBANE, April 11. Speaking at the University, the Chief Justice (Sir P.. A. Cooper) said that. France, once regarded as the homo' of sabotage, and Russia, once, racked .with internal disputes, had entered the- war with-a. unanimity of spirit, whilst in England, the home of freedom, there- were chirkers and strikers. He was a democrat, and \vn»s puzzled how ujies(> sliould exist in a. democratic 'communily' witli' thesame people who said preference'for. unionists. Such concessions would jesulb in an advance in democracy-, .hut.. sucli-..pi"aetices, wer.e :really., the lritro^nssitiazt; of despotism.;