INDEPENDENT'S ADDRESS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 5, 10 September 1943, Page 4

INDEPENDENT'S ADDRESS

MEETING AT MATATA Speaking at Matata last Friday an Independent candidate for the Tauranga electorate, Mr H. J. Angus, said: — "Freedom took long to win. It can be lost overnight. I;t is something that, is not missed until it is lost, and, once gone may take generations to regain. I find it hard to realise that there are people who will give away their children's birthright, who will risk war revolution or slaverj' rather than think lyWe facc the conditions before us to-day because our own forefathers evaded their responsibility moral and material. They passed, their problem to us, and if we do the ■children of the present, there will be little chance for them. The price of liberty i.s eternal vigilance. The habit both parties have of making statements that are demonstrably incorrect, is deplorable, and accounts very largely for the disrepute into Avhich politicians have- fallen. The Labour candidates claim that the present financial policy 'is controlled by the Government is such a statement. That they have a greater say/in the administration is doubtless true, but it is a matter of com-: plete indifference as to which name the system serves under. It may be Messrs Nash and Co. or Messrs the Bank of International Settlements. The result, which is what counts is the same viz., increasing taxation and increasing regimentation. Mr Holland now says that the time when finance exercised, an absolute dictatorship is gone. As his party in the past, never would admit that finance did dominate our lives, this is something to the good, but to pretend that the. position has changed, is just claptrap. His party will provide the same indigestable meal of regimentation and taxation as the other. The fact that carvior is served up as pate-de-fois-gras will not. disguise its llauseatfng taste.