BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1924, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

PREMIER. MORALISE*. ("Sydney Sun” Cables). ((Received this day at 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Alar< li 0. W'liiil do tho people do "lie' they want appreciation. They buy hommivi and their names am printed for the first time in their lives m honours. That is I lie first- association they ever Jt.e.l with anything honour, tide. This i what .Mr .MucDimnW told a Brighton audience whom he addressed under the auspices of Evangelical Dree (.'hurehes. The Premier said people who are rich, who give great dinners, who are ostentatious, vulgar, extravagant, and who have none of tiie finer sense of the gentleman are too often power) ol /people in these modern tithes, of which / ■•■(. are so rashly inclined to boast. In ! this materialistic age, we mostly value each oilier by our material possessions. There is every indulgence in recreation; tlitre is incapacity to stand a. quiet Sunday. Whether you have a lory, Liberal or Labour Government you cannot do much with people who can (hi nothing, hut he amazed by somebody else, or a gramaplmne people who have net the capacity to spend their time piolitably with themselves. We are losing the sense of what real human \alue is. We are going too much after superficialities, gold braid decorations, ailer right heiiou ra Lies ''.lid are wrong or dishonourable, The. essence ol G'hi'isti.M’ity is human quality. We do not want equality, blit, quality. We arc threatened with .strikes, lock-outs, disputes, and dsturbanccs. How childish if all is. What has happened is that two sides have lost confidence in each t,tiler. We must put materialism aside and remember that man does not live I'm his pocket, hut for his soul and for justice. BRITAIN'S AH.AH'. | It kctkus Tel no a a ms. ] (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON. March fi. The Army establishnieiit, excluding India, is 152,001) men compared with 150,00(1 last year.