PARLAIMENT.
[ DEARTH OF CANDIDATES ''Anyone Avho lias been engaged in the aclmil working of our political organisations must feel anxiety at 11 to dearth, in normal times, of the best class of candidate for Parliament and for local councils; the indifference of the great body of the population to the membership and maintenance of the party organisations; and the little interest that I here is in local government elections. Thai the v.rong type of "people are sometimes in control is no- reason for the right lype to abstain, but the contrary. There is an eig'hteenth-century couplet, ofLen quoted as sound, from Addison's '(lato': 'Where vice prevails and. honour is a private station.'" Nothing could be more false. It is then aboive all that men of honour should spring into the arena, >ehase out the vicious and inslal the upright."— Viscount Samuel, in a recent letv ture on "Democracy: Its Failures and its Future 1 ."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 88, 7 August 1942, Page 2
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154PARLAIMENT. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 88, 7 August 1942, Page 2
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