But we should work towards it. Parliament may act as a kind of guardian
of the unorganized, but, once an industry is organized, once it has come
of age, it must resent domination by bodies without the special
knowledge of which it has the monopoly within itself. It should not
tolerate domination by the unexpert outsider, whatever may be his repute
in other spheres. It is only when industries are organized that the
democratic system of election can justify itself by results in
administration. When a county, let us say, chooses a member of
Parliament to represent every interest, only too often it chooses a man
who can represent few interests except his own. The greatest common
denominator of the constituents is as a rule some fluent utterer of
platitudes. But if the farmers in a county, or the manufacturers in a
county, or the workers in a county, had each to choose a man to
represent them, we may be certain the farmers would choose one whom they
regarded as competent to interpret their needs, the manufacturers a man
of real ability, and labor would select its best intelligence.
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