. William Ellis expended larg

Rasavong Stachniw befuddling at tlmia.com
Sat Mar 27 18:18:55 UTC 2010


2, might have boded ill for the success of my mission, but I was

no sooner ashore than my friend Alfred Cridge took me in charge, and
the first few days
were a whirl of meetings, addresses and interviews. CHAPTER XVII.

IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. Alfred Cridge, who reminded me so much
of my brother David that I felt at home with him immediately, had
prepared
the way for my lectures on effective voting in San Francisco. He was
an even greater enthusiast than I. "America

needs the reform more than Australia," he used to say. But if America
needs effective voting to check corruption, Australia
needs it just as much to prevent the degradation of political life in
the Commonwealth and States to the level of American politics.
My lectures in San Francisco, as
elsewhere in America, were well attended, and even better received.
Party politics had crushed out
the best elements of political life, and to be independent
of either party
gave a candidate, as an agent told Judge Lindsay
when he was contesting the governorship of Colorado, "as much chance
as a snowball would have in hell." So that reformers everywhere
were eager to hear of a system of voting that would free the electors
from the tyranny of parties, and at the same time render a candidate
independent of the votes of heckling minorities, and dependent only
on the votes of the men who believed in him and his politics. I met
men and women interested in public affairs--some of them well known,
others
most worthy to be known, and all willing to lend the weight
of their character and intelligence to the betterment of human
conditions at home and abroad. Among these were Judge Maguire,
a leader of the Bar in San Fran
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