THE DANGER OF INEXPERIENCE

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1736, 29 April 1913, Page 6

THE DANGER OF INEXPERIENCE

$ The broad grounds on which citizens should reject the Labour-Social-ist ticket which is_ seeking to dominate the municipality at the election to-morrow are briefly discussed in another article in this issue. Class rule is an ill thing to introduce into municipal affairs, and the grasping, monopolistic spirit shown by the Labour-Socialists in seeking to secure the whole of the seats both on the City Council' and the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board by means of "ticket" methods'cannot fail to add to the resentment of those who believe that it is right that the interests of all classes should receive fair and just consideration. But there is another aspect of the present situation which cannot be overlooked. Even those electors who may be inclined to show a sympathetic tolerance of the aspirations of the LabourSocialists, and even, indeed, ardent supporters of the "Unity" leaders, if they seriously regard their interests and obligations as citizens, must realise that it ivould be a very dangerous thing to place the control of the city's affairs in the hands of the candidates on the Labour-Socialist ticket. Privately, .these candidates may be wholly estimable, but they, for the most part, have neither experience or training to qualify them to take charge of the large and important undertakings associated with the government of the city. There are'many who will probably go so far as to say that even in the field which most of them have made their speciality; that of' Labour leaders and organisers, their efforts have been responsible for more mischief than .good. They are, indeed, taken as a body, disqualified by their inexperience and limited_knowledge,_as well as by their class bias and prejudice. -■