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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

Our aims should then be:—

1.	To substitute honest administrators and sound financiers for those now in power.
2.	To amend our constitutional machinery so that by a fuller measure of democracy the corrupting power of the party system and the party boss may be reduced to a minimum.
3.	To pursue, but cautiously and without arousing class antagonisms, a genuinely Liberal policy with the object of as far as possible equalizing conditions and opportunities, and of avoiding the extremes of wealth and poverty which constitute the chief perils of older lands.

These are the objects which I shall endeavour to promote if it is your pleasure that I shall serve you in Parliament.

I am, etc.

A. R. Atkinson.

30th November, 1896.

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