One thing which this public man-infestation by the President of desire for parliamentary organization will accomplish is the partial disarming of the critics who have pronounced the conviction that the President aims at autocratic control of the country by the sheer weight of dictatorial powers. That the proposed Lifayuan will not be strictly representative, and will not possess full and untrammelled legislative powers must be admitted, but these the President considers the people of China are not yet fitted or entitled to have bestowed upon them.
What he maintains is that the people will have the opportunity under restricted conditions to prove that they really possess the faculty for self-government, and by the stepping-stone which he is prepared
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