THE POLITICAL ISSUE—THE REFERENDUM.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2164, 1 June 1914, Page 4

THE POLITICAL ISSUE—THE REFERENDUM.

Sir, -The demand «f the ISible-in-...<:iic>o}s League to have its unfair pro-iJos-als submitted to -.tho direct vote of Me people has .fwcod tho question of tho referendum to the forefront of political ■ Already there i»-se demands that three other important .ptiblw questions, viz., compulsory military training, the local navy, atiti taxation or land values shall bo submitted to popular vote. It is obvious that the 1 rime .Minister's '-SVs-Xo" attitude on the (tucsti.oii ef & referendum to enable ■tho clerical party to introduce, -sect-arian-ism into out -national schools will- riiako :tl»e referendum with initiative the detidiiip; issue at the forthcoming eiecticms._ Sneh an important and- farreaching chaago in ou.r system, of gov-or-nn'ie.nt can 'well i'orin the -solo issue -at if- Parliamentary election. It wiit afford the- people of Sw Zealand the opportunity of geoitfgr tho Masse? tovninmoni (if it-accedes to the request.'Wf the clerical party), working . hand-in-hand with tlio -So ci a 1 -I.V mocr a ti-c Party and Tim Douixios and the "jiia-ori-latul Worker" both advocating the same policy.--! am, etc., . TIIOS. A. HTJXTKK. May 27, 1014. Hi is, of euursCj a part of the policy of J.'rofi.'ssor Hunter a-irf his associates on. the- Km-uiii'c of Urn Defence League to raise these bogies to alarm the timid.. For ourselves, we shall bo pleased to assist the "Mnorilami Worker," or any other jottr-nitl, in any campaign for the benefit of the public; but- in- tli-,: present, instance it has been made plain that it is Professor, Huntoi' mid bis friends who have joined hands with tho official organ 6.f tte §omlDemocrais in tho fight againstßibfe lessons Win;; included in the syllabus of tiic puMic schools of the Dominion.!'