POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1925, Page 4

POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS

The choice of (lie country has implications which should he given very earnest consideration by the Government. Mr Coates has asked for an expression of the Dominion’s couliilome. lie- has got it. lie lias put forward a policy for endorsement, l! lias been endorsed. Me lias sought opportunity to give clfecl to definite political ideas. That opporunity is now iiis. The end of the election campaign is (he Iveginning of the Government’s task. 'The country looks to Mr Coates for the fulfilment of the hopes that he himself, by speech and deed, has done much lo raise. Mis chance is a great one. In his political inheritance he has been fortunate. Air Massey’s robust common sense in domestic polity and broad vision of ini emit ionnl issues did much to establish the Government in the regard of Now Zealand's people. 'Thai regard Air C’oatos inherited as a trust to he conserved when he came to •premier office.—“ New Zealand Herald.” A remarkable feature tit the election kt provided in the fact that not a single member of the Reform Party in 1 1 ic last Parliament, who offered himself for election has lost his seat, wliiie the new members of the party are more numerous than the total strenglh ot either the National or the Labour Party. The fact is one that illustrates rather forcibly the. character of the "land slide” in favour of the Government. ’The National Party has suffered a further diminution in its strength, and it will be represented in the new Parliament by a distinctly small group of members. There will he a good deal of curiosity as i > the role which Kir Joseph AA’ard will play, il the votes (lint have yet to he counted confirm him in the occupancy of the Invercargill. scat. Me did not olid- himself for election as a member id the National Parly, and it is hardly to be supposed Dial he will he a docile lollower of Mr Forbes, the leader ol that parly.—“Otago Daily Times.”

Old complaints must he more gradually dealt with if they are not to be made worse instead of improved. Act there is an aspiration underlying nllicial socialism, as there is also underlying prohibition, which must be approved byall. 'The {socialism flint would end all private properry in the shortest time (though liol immediately), that Mould give a CO basic wage lo everyone irrespective of bis industry or capacity, irrespective of where the money ua> lo come from though why stop at LO Y must seem most like the Socialism ol a dream, which would he mosl likely to prove a destructive dream were the at tempt made to realise it. But there is a Liberal Socialism which is practicable. and which is being realised. ’I be Reform Party under Air Alnssey did much to extend it. while it made the least, professions, and Air Coates, who was a Liberal before lie was a Reformer. promises to do much more. Dunedin “Star."