POINTS FROM LETTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 10

POINTS FROM LETTERS

PROMISES AND PERFORMANCE

"Ex-Civil Servant" writes at. length on electioneering promises and performance. The correspondent says: "Your correspondent ('Under Dog') in Saturday's Tost/ states in the course of his letter- 'It is my opinion that the Public Sen-ants should inquire from each candidate his opinion of the fairness of refusing the restoration of the cut.' Really 'Under Dog' must be putting up bottles for the Socialist to knock down, or else he is looking at _ the- matter from a very simple viewpoint, especially when he himself mentions the pre-election promises of that party a year ago. What does one or a dozen promises cost, 'remembering the volume at the General Election.' . . . Hasn't 'Under Uog taken to heart the lessons o£ the past session, which were so transparent that anyone with an ordinary amount of sense could understand. Take jusfc one instanceThe big bluff o£ the Socialists on behalf of the Civil Service. Would they have moved that motion if they had not known, beforehand that the Reform Party would not vote with them, and that they were therefore safe. They valued the £100 Christmas box which was coming to them as a reward for services .rendered during the session just ended, and which 'Under Dog and the rest of us will contribute to m double primage, duty which the Socialists helped to pass. lam an exCivil Servant, and-have supported Liberal, Liberal-Labour, and Liberal United for many years, but last session has cured me utterly; I am convinced that the party that promises least is the one most likely to fulfil its pledge."