'TOO HONEST FOR POLITICS?'

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 8

'TOO HONEST FOR POLITICS?'

(To the : Editor.)

Sir, —The Welfare League may or may not have intended to cast reflections on - the honesty of-all politicians when it stated on 10th June: "There is a doubt if Stanley Baldwin is not too honest for the game of politics," but that is the inference .1 deduct from the statement. I, like many [others, enjoy the extravagant language <£ the league, and look forward -to thes« jokes; but a joke may be carried too far. Xo suggest that politicians are not honest | is hitting below the belt. These gentlemen are the choice and cream of the peoplethat is more than the league or I can claim —and, as such, no matter what colours sex, or creed, they command respect from ■ us all, and whatever mode of thought they pursue they honestly believe that couri* tne best for the people.—l am, etc., J. MILLER. (To the Editor.) 1*! there has never, appeared within the columns of your paper bo weak % b a,^ e ,on any subject as this "Ironies V v? ii cs wthe S.aturnalian theme writt? n by uh? New Zealand Welfare League! Never before, I believe, has therV been : :such a, conglomeration of contradiction* encompassed in so small a space « y: K e??£; mS "work"-as a better simile than ''faith" with which to refer to Mr. Baldwin; by contending, too, that . i tt plain work,' not rainbows of enehahtine promises, lies the virtue of Conservatism ■ Sid V XT ll™ corespondents' accomplished? Nothing utterly nothing. The barbed arrows of logic, speeding not from wKTU labour 'shal1>lay havwhen embodied m a.party is that in its n ° -m t cts li hat« Principles," might possibly have- the effect of inducW your correspondents to play the soft pedKero ■the "plain work;" or any other kind of work of Conservatism, is concerned In endeavouring to represent the lat»Government of Britain in its best possible iff^ey.have" allowed their desires to -."■.. W. O'BEILLY...