NATIONALIST HOPES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22511, 20 September 1938, Page 13

NATIONALIST HOPES

gjrr~The speech pttbe Hon. Adam Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition, in the room of Wellington's National Club was not only attractive and Interesting, but exhilarating in the truest sense of the word, I should «ka to have bean present to sea the remarkable display of enthusiasm, which was shown on this memorable occasion. t ' Mr Guy Johnston said, hi welcoming tha party, the country as a whole was under a debt of gratitude to it for the services it had rendered. Wow. at an interested individual Jn tb* welfare of, the Dominion, I should like to know what benefits th* country has derived from the administration of the Reform or National Party. Would .Mr Johnston or the Hon, Adam Hamilton eon-. sider it an act of the wisest policy to

reduce tha old aft pension, to? widows', passion, or to reduce wages to such •' minlmiim that people wtr* on the ytrg c of starvation, and insurrection? It wu this kind of PsrUamontMT P/ocadura which threw the Reform Party oft it; pedestal and placed the present Govarnmant in the asaendant, and I, and all rliht-thlnkinc paoole will vigorously vole for another three years' continuance. m Tha country hat nothing to ba thankful for in tha Jwpeflts it received from tha Reform Party. There is not one humanitarian act to show that tha Reform Party did any good wMe Chad the power. J>oes.the Hon Adam Hamilton think that the conditions of those times were mora favourable to the welfare of tha people than they are at (he present 1 would tall him that tboto days or depression were a dark blot on tha the Parliament at that time assembled. Doer Mr Hamilton expect to be returned ,to Parliament by an excessive majority because ha is incapable jpf performing the duties of, a member of Parliamanf to a successful issue? Mr Hamilton and his colleagues of the Party, they say. era facing the coming contest With nigh hopes and * fixed determination to spare no effort -to gain a .sweeping: victory against the >rces of Socialism. Mr Ifamuton must know that to speak of grand balls to be held in honour of a National victory is countlngthechickensbefore they arc hatched. This building of castles In the air is the work of children and Mr Hamilton should know better than to indulge in such day dreams. A* the Hon. Adam Hamilton is given to such childish fantasy, X can sea him at the gnrmination of the election, with all his eautiful castles lying in ruins around w MOSDIU. September 17, 1995. «...