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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 65, 10 December 1919, Page 11

Thai is sound advice at most times It is especially so at the present time Far greater issues will be decided at the polls next Wednesday than ever before in the history of this country, and you ought to vote with that fact clearly in your mind, What you and every other man and woman will have to answer before you cast your votes on polling day is:— I. I How in this critical time can the country best be enabled, while meets' ing its heavy war burdens, to maintain its prosperity? y This is not a question you can afford to leave to somebody; else. It j}- vitally concerns your interests and the interests of your family, as well as | Hi those of your, country. |! j If the country is badly governed during the difficult years that lie ahead, jjj , . if its affairs.are. allowed to fall into disorder, you and your family will not P j] escape your share of the trouble and hardship such conditions entail. \ \ THE TIME TO AVERT SUCH TROUBLES IS NOW. j | YOU can SAFEGUARD your' own security and welfare, and that of I your family BY VOTING WISELY and putting in the right Government, j and in no other way. , The grand need is sound, strong and prudent Government, the kind of | I ii Government that takes no fisks, yet loses no opportunity of promoting the || j yi welfare cf the people, and is capable of .grappling courageously with w difficult problems. jjj The parties bidding, for yiour support are to be judged on their records, 11 not on cheap catch-cries. : . ' If that.standard is adopted what title can the Wardist Party lay to your support? Its record is one of FAILURE and DECLINE. When it was last in office, before the war, it failed miserably to deal with much lighter difficulties than the country has to face to-day. Bo you remember the financial crisis of 1909? J It was a trifling emergency by present day standards. Yet it threw . . j the Ward Government into A WILD PANIC. Close 011 A THOUSAND CIVIL SERVANTS WERE RETRENCHED AND THROWN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT, . and they and their families were left to shift as best they might. That was the Wardist way in time of emergency. Think that over. Do you want that sort of Government to-day? Such failures are worth recalling at a time when sound and resolute I Government is more than ever before in supreme necessity. I You have to consider VASTLY BIGGER THINGS than petty\ party issues. The vital issue raised is that of sound, strong, and prudent Government as against reckless and possibly panicky action, which in the coming years might react with disastrous effect upon our trade and industry, and introduce DEPRESSION and UNEMPLOYMENT which Would bear hard on all classes. j . Your responsibility is big. j The; issues are big in this election. TAKE NO RISKS I ONE OF THE BIGGEST POINTS TO CONSIDER IS THIS:— The Ward Party showed itself weakly vacillating, capable of stupidly panicky action, even when it boasted a huge majority in Parliament. What could be expected of it if it got back into office, not with an independent j majority, but depending upon the support of the Labour Party, which is j dominated by revolutionary extremists? THERE'S THE RUB! What chance would it have, in such conditions; of resisting the . pressure of the Labour-Socialist extremists who are avowedly intent upon , i • using it and profiting by its weakness to forward their wildest schemes? Can anyf thoughtful man or woman afiord to ignore that question? Everyone knows what the extremists stand for—disloyalty, industrial jjj chaos, social revolution, and domination of the democracy by a minority I I! j depending on brute force. |J yj This is plain fact—a very ugly fact, too. jU (A You have to choose between the party which has shown itself weak and in j helpless in time of trouble, the party which is now more than ever danger- ! ously exposed to the pressure and influence of revolutionary extremists; and j A PARTY OF SOUND RECORD, WHICH STANDS FOUR-SQUARE i FOR SOUND AND STABLE GOVERNMENT. The Reform Party since it took office has FACED AND OVERCOME MANY TROUBLES, SOLVED MANY PROBLEMS. There is no such ' blemish in its record as the incompetent fatuity which NEEDLESSLY cast out hundreds of Civil Servants to battle as best they could against .want and unemployment. ! YOU KNOW THIS. IT IS ALL ON RECORD. Consider what happened last session. The Reform Party put through a record programme. The legislation then passed will help the country to solve its problems and overcome its difficulties. . SOLDIER SETTLEMENT, the HOUSING PROBLEM, PROFITEERING, and other needs and problems, ALL WERE DEALT WITH IN A BOLDLY ENTERPRISING WAY. With little time for preparation, the Reform Party made generous provision for our soldiers, set up the machinery that will enable any thrifty Iman to become his own landlord, and passed the most drastic legislation on record for the suppression of profiteering. This is THE WORK THE COUNTRY NEEDS, j [ CAN YOU DO BETTER in your own interests and the interests of I your family than whole-heartedly support the Government and Party that DID THE WORK? CAN YOU DO BETTER than cast out and reject the party which turned aside from the work of the country in order to open up party strife and begin electioneering. SOUND, STRONG and PRUDENT administration, BOLD enterprise in promoting progressive legislation, an INDEPENDENT and UNCOMPROMISING stand against the Labour-Socialist extremists—THESE ARE THE RECORD OF THE REFORM PARTY. 1 Take no. risks; vote for Reform candidates; it is the only safe way o ! . : . r j , ' J%j\ |jl^