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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 62, 6 December 1919, Page 7

: Ik Women's fete! Hit It Means to Hew Zealand * Ladies I f\N Wednesday, 17th December, you will have the privilege of casting your votes in the election of a new Parliament. Though some—perhaps many—of you may not realise it, your vote is a BIG FACTOR. It is really THE DECIDING FACTOR. When you come to think of it, this business of crossing out certain names on the voting paper and popping the paper into the ballotbox—often with-the remark, "Thank goodness, > that's over"—is a most serious and vital thing. Remember how hard our forefathers had to fight to get it for us, and what a great privilege it was when we first exercised it. Now, after many years, it has become to some people a sort of irksome duty, a nuisance even. BUT, THINKOiie Single Vote—Your - Vote Perhaps—is all that is required to tip the' scale one way or the other. One Single Vote—Agaln 5 It May be Your Own—can decide the fate of a candidate. * One Single Vote—Your Vote, mind you—can break up a Party and absolutely destroy a Government. - But even that, is not all— One Single - Vote—Yours,- for all you know—can decide the Fate of your I ■ Country, and-of your own Personal, Individual, Domestic Happiness! NOW, LADIES, just think this over, quietly, calmly, and you will So you sea, you mustn't be misled by glittering promises. see for yourselves how true it all is. It is NOT exaggeration. It is «. ~ „ .' . , .. .. t , , . . HOT mere electioneering talk. It is the TRUTH.. At the back of - Jf ow ' theie are V ® J , g r # fc , you ir7 g beware our minds we ALL know it. But do we THINK ENOUGH about f when you go to vote on Wednesday, December 17. it? THAT'S THE TROUBLE! You've got to beware of the man who makes promises that he can't . And now hero is another thing. This is a VERY IMPORTANT possibly keep, for if he does that kind of thing the chances are that he election. It is TEE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION WE HAVE won t kesp bhe promises he could keep. Why does he make those EVER HAD IH TEIS COUNTRY. There are so many things that ES », Just to f3f our confidence for that three minutes you re m MUST be attended -o, things that are important to you, that matter to the ballot box. So that he can slip mio Parliament on the strength you every da,-™. | .or lives, that affect you as wives, as mothers, as a 0 woman, and if wo 'do not get the right men in Parliament these things Don't forget to go to the poll. You won't forget, for you realise WON'T be altered to. now what your vote means to you and yours. Don't vote for the You see, there ARE times when it is a good thing for the country Wax dists whatever you do, for if they don't geo enough seats to go to have ding-dong battles in Parliament to prevent one party getting a , ms . r ' the extremists—Holland and Fraser, and men like too much power, but things are far too serious to risk that sort of thing, Wiat—have said they will he.p them to put the Reform Government out. just now. This is a time when everyone MUST PULL TOGETHER ? e U e said s ?' and the y Vfi also said ! wh ? n ttl . e y l e ;.? one J hat for the country's sake and your sakes. If we can find men who are they 11 go against the Wardists too, so the place will be like a bear ready to do this, to pull together and put things right, now that the garden while all our;wants are waiting to be attended to. war is over, we ought to do all we can to put them into Parliament so THERE ARE THREE THINGS WE WANT TO GET RID OF. that we can have a good strong Government. .. .. ... ... .. 4 . . .. . ... We want first to get rid of the agitator who is stirring up strife You agree to that? Of course you do. among the workers, encouraging them to strike or go slow, with the Well, the next thing is to remember that on Wednesday, December result that you have to go on short commons for coal; sometimes your 17, everyone of you MUST GO TO THE POLL AND VOTE. You'll $ as 1S cut of£> You want to reffienibßr tliat tlle onl y man who S ets an Y be surprised, to hear that THOUSANDS of people last election FAIL- good out of the labour agitator is the agitator himself, for that's how he ED TO CAST THEIR VOTE. People who do that sort of thing, either S ets hls llvm S' CUT HIM OUT when 1™ §° to the ballot box ' through carelessness or neglect, are simply handing their country over The next thing you want to get rid of is the man who stirs up to the none too tender mercies of a class of person who doesn't care two trouble in Parliament and tries to divide' it into sixes and sevens to straws what becomes of you, or your domestic happiness so long as they suit his own ends. These sort of men do not pull together for the good can grab everything in sight for their own class. Your own intuition of all; they always put their Party first. The Wardists are like that. will tell -yiou what this class of person is. There's one brand of it in They left the National Government just at the time when it was necesRussia. . sary for everyone to unite to put things right after the war. What do We have all got worries of some kind or another in our daily lives you think of men who leave their partners in the lurch like that? —business worries, domestic worries, worries about the price of food The only mail in tliis election wlio has held out Ms hands to the and clothing, worries about coal, and whether we'll be able to get any otller slde a^d oflered to pull {oget)ler -for your sakes, for the.sake of all next week or not, worries about whether the next lot of sugar that comes _ is Wr _ Masse wm '„„„ t0 that offer, and rememto Hew Zealand will be landed or be taken back where it came from ber also ffiat oflcr w as gEfUSED? Suppose we had a big trouble , V T. here, bigger even than the one we had in 1913. Which would you . rather have at the head of the Government to uphold law and get rid of them altogether. ttell, there is only one way of getting rid ord to prot ect you-Mr.. ffiassey or Sir Joseph Ward? Or • of them, and that is to get rid of the causes of them. p llt t , lis . jjj dn >j y OU feel thankful ill 1913 that Mr. Massey We've, got a lovely country, and a lovely climate. We should be ■ was a t the head of the Government, and not Sir Joseph Ward? You the happiest country on the face of the earth. AND WE CAN BE, k now y o u did. IF WE LIKE, TO WAKE UP AND MAKE IT SO. What you really The {uture ew Zealand depends largely on the class of Governwant to do is to vote for the men who do things, not those who talk mont it gßfe at ae electioM on mL future, your children's about them. future depends on a strong Government carrying us through the next few Sir Joseph Ward, for example, is always talking at election times y earSi about all sorts of fine things, but talk does not get you very far. It . . was because they talked too much and did too little or did it the wrong K(n Y tliat 1S a " out ail * v/ay, that the Liberals were put out of office in 1911. And now they Vote for the men who have promised to WORK TOGETHER FOR are going about the country promising things that no mortal man could THE GOOD OF ALL, AND ALL WILL BE WELL, and the New possibly hope to do. , Year Bells will ring in PjutV: Ifefomv Security PotppliitssL Prosperity . fc- j^zZZ=ZZ^^^=== !a1 '....