These committees
should send representatives to general councils of local government,
agriculture, and trade. The election should not be by the County
Council as a body, but by the committees, so that traders would have no
voice in choosing a representative for farmers, nor farmers interfere in
the choice of manufacturers or traders selecting a representative on a
general Council of Trade, and it should be regarded as ridiculous any
such intervention as for a War Office to claim it should have a voice
along with the Admiralty in the selection of captains and commanders of
vessels of war. At these general councils, which might meet twice a
year for whatever number of days may be expedient, general policies
would be decided and boards elected to ensure the carrying out by the
officials of the policies decided upon. By this process of selection
men who had to control Boards of Agriculture, Trade, or Local Government
would be three times elected, each time by a gradually decreasing
electorate, with a gradually increasing special knowledge of the matters
to be dealt with.
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