LABOUR'S AIM IS SOCIALISM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 91, 4 May 1937, Page 7

LABOUR'S AIM IS SOCIALISM

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Nationalist Leader's . Warning "T00 MUCH SENTIMENT"

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DUNEDIN, This Day. The Hon. Adarn Hamilton, Leader of the' Nationalist Party, last night add*ressed a large meeting of National Party supporters. Discussing his uorthern tour he said that the mdicatiofls were that the party would win several aeats in the North Island, while a good fight was certain in the Auckland piovince, where the Coalition had won only five out of 27 seats, and they hoped to win half of those seate. Very keen interest was being shown in the Wellington province, where the organisation was at its best, 10,000 members being enrolled. Throughout the South Island the movement was gaining strong supporfc.

Labour's aim was the inaugfuration of the Socialist Government and th^ were on the way with the brakes off. It was the duty of all to -sea that the country was well governed and that the future was safeguarded. Taxation reduction wae mentioncd by Mr Hamilton, who said that in the past, £25,p00,000 had sufficed to run the affairs of State} but this year Lahotir was collecting £30,000,000 and spending it. He was certain that there was no need to collect that amount, as it waa wiser to leave the money with the taxpayers, who were wiser spenders than the State. Concluding, Mr Hamilton said that Labour's actions were dominated by sentiment and sympathy. "They are excellent virtues to be cultivated, but they should-not be allowed to dominate judgment and reason," he said. "The whole of the Labour legislation Ts dominated by sympathy — more pensions, more sustenance, more cbarities — with* out a thought for the other side of the story. We have to keep a balance between judgmeunt and the emotional side."-