FOOLISH AND IMPOSSIBLE.
The Melbourne "Age," whidi is the mosifc powerful Liberal organ in Ausifcrallia, looks upon Sir Joseph Ward's proposal to institute an Imperial Council of State as a "foolish and impossible fad.." The "Age" says: • —"Under the guise cf an absolutely iliusionary representation it would bind the dependencies to schemes with which they have no sympathy, and involve them in expenditure which ffchey would be unable to endorse .and powerless to direct. It is not the democratic voice of England which rules the policies of the United Kingdom. It is a great permanent bureaucracy, speaking through the Ministry of the day, anid over which the representatives of the people have only the most shadowy influence. If .Australia were to have 40 representatives sitting in the House of Gammons they would be as feeble in -directing Imperial courses as the proverbial fly in regulating the driving wlieel of a 50,000-horse-power engine,"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10185, 10 March 1911, Page 4
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152FOOLISH AND IMPOSSIBLE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10185, 10 March 1911, Page 4
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