OPPORTUNISM.
Opportunism is the constant and successful foe which the true Conservatives—there are not many of them who remain—have to face. \\ ithout principles the party cannot exist, is not worth existence, anil opportunism makes short work of principles. lo follow whither the hope of votes leads you is a denial of leadership, and leadership should he the very essence of Conservatism. .Moreover, universal suffrage has made a chasm between Conservatism and the people which can hardly he crossed. There was a time when we might have regarded society as a pyramid and made our cleavage of Tories and Liberals perpendicularly. Now the cleavage must he made horizontally. as, since it is always the thin, end that is at the top, it is almost impossible, in an age when quantity alone counts, to foresee an Ultimate supremacy of quality.—“ Blackwood’s Magazine.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1927, Page 3
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