PROHIBITION AND POLITICS.
TO TBS EDITOR OP "THE PP.ESS.'' Sir, —An American editor says "the trouble with some .of our most ardent reformers is that they confuse the Constitution with the Decalogue. The Decalogue is a code of ethics; the Constitution is a system of.rules adopted by the representatives of the people for their government. In a true democracy the Constitution would register the will of the people. Some of these clays we shall, perhaps, have a direct referendum of the pjople on all Constitutional questions." Here in New Zealand it .seems that the Prohibition Party have decided that tha triennial referendum will one."' a grain show the will of the peopto to be contrary to what they aersire, so, they intend to follow the example of U.S.A. and force through Parliament, if they can, a prohibitive measure- contrary to tho expressed will, of the people. If wo are a true Democracy, and surely we are, or at least the Labour Party should have us believe- that we are, we are not going to put up with that sort, of thing. It would be interesting to hear the leaders of the Labour Party on this aspect of the attack on our Democracy. —Yours, etc., M.
June 25th, 192-5
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18418, 26 June 1925, Page 10
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208PROHIBITION AND POLITICS. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18418, 26 June 1925, Page 10
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