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1928.
PARLIAMENT AND THE AMAZING SCENE AT
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HARMONIOUS WORKING IN GOOD GOVERNMENT,
It was in Great Britain, the nurse
LEAGUE MATCH.
TWO SEVERE BLOWS FOR REFEREE.
.There
WAS
extraordinary
of parliamentary Institutions, that scone on the Bristol Rovers' foot- the importance of Parliament and ball ground recently in the course of the Press was first recognized, and the Western League match between
Monday, 12th November, 1928 it is two British writers who have that team and Plymouth Argylo
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mutual relationship. One of them, Lato in the second half. the ro Burke (b. 1729, d. 1797), stated forec, Mr. A. J. Attwood, of New- that there are three estates in port, cautioned Pullon, the Ply Parliament, viz., the nobility, the mouth centre half-back, for the Church, and the gentry, but that a third time, and told him that if ho fourth estate is enthroned on the had to speak to him again he would gallery of the Press which is more order him off.
| important than all the other three, Immediately afterwards Pullen and Thomas Carlyle (b. 1795, had another meleo with an op- d. 1881) said that the Press is the ponent, whereupon the referee big multicoloured and unlimited ordered him off the field and point- Parliament of the world where ed to the dressing-room.
| discussion.
away.
overy kind of subject comes up for: Pullen stepped back a pace, and The Press may indeed be justly immediately the referee received a severe blow in the face, which cut compared to a large Parliament ad- his upper lip. A second blow, dressing itself to millions every day, which damaged the left check, and no Congress and no religious followed, and then a Rovers player body can boast the possession of an intervened and dragged Pullen influence equal to that of the Preas, But, if we are allowed to une a modern expression, the real Parlia-: ment is after all the "transmitting station" from which the Press le furnished with the raw material of Its activities. The Press, in its turn, tells Parliament what the people think and feel, and allows the most diversified shades of opinion to be heard, because its criticism is based on independent action.
Coping Stone,
Police on the Scene, Ambulaive men attended to the referee, who, though in consider- uble pain, continued his control of the game.
After Pullen had reached the dressing room two policemen enter- cd, with some of the Bristol direc bora, but It was decided, The Daily Chronicle understands, not to take proceedings. The matter will be dealt with, in the ordinary way, by the Football Association:
Parliament represents the people and is elected in conformity with
Pullen went to the referee's room the principles of democracy. Its decisions reflect the will of the at the end of the match and offered majority. The Press, however, as an apology for his conduct, which Carlyle puts it, Is the tribune from the official declined to accept. which everyono may apeak who
The incidenti caused a sensation
feels that has something to ens. among the spectators.
Is it not true that the antithesis The game ended in a win for the contained in the existence of these home team by two goals, both scored two facts, constitutes something by Dix...
like the coping stone of the par-
liamentary system? There 13, of
course, one necessary reservation aware of the responsibility resting which we must concedo before on ita shoulders.
giving our reply in the affirmative,
viz.: The statement is only true
Free Press,
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In every country governed by and intellectual crisis is bound to parliamentary institutions a great arise Booner Lor later. No responsibility is entrusted to the emergency should ever lead to a Press and to journalism. They are restriction of this liberty. A required to respect the reputation nation whose Press and Parliament of Parliament and to justlyap-happily supplement, each other in preciate its labours. The fourna-their pursuance of the great aim list who nela as parliamentary cor- of advancing the interests of the respondent or as his paper's nation and the state may Indeed specialist on parliamentary alfairs be called fortunate. Everyone must can do a great deal to make or mar concur in the hopa that Parliament the dignity of Parliament and its and the presa will cucceed in In- Institutions. Happily. however,spiring the nations of the world there can be no doubt that the with M desire
the to altain Press of the countries overned by highest aims which it is possible parliamentary Institutions is fully for mankind to envisage.
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