OPPORTUNISM
Opportunism is the constant mid sueccssl u! luc which tilt* true ('ouservativcs |. —there ni'O net many of them who roiimin—hnve to face. Without principles tiie party cannot exist, is not worth existenee. nml opportunism makes short, work of principles. To follow whither the hope of votes lends you is a denial of leadership, and leadership should ( he the very essence ot Conservatism. I .Moreover, universal suffrage has made a chasm between Conservatism and I the people which can hardly he crossed. There was a Cine when we might have I regarded society as a pyramid and made our cleavage of Tories and Liber- , als perpendicularly. Now the cleavage , must he made lmriy.ontally, as, since it. it always the thin end that is at the I top, it is almost impossible, in an age , when quantity alone counts, to foresee ail ultimate .supremacy of quality. I " Blackwood’s Maga.dne.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1928, Page 4
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148OPPORTUNISM Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1928, Page 4
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