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Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1930, Page 5

LEAVING IT TO THE PEOPLE. “Why is it that those who, only a few years ago, were using their best efforts to keep important issues ‘out of politics,’ lest they should he irreparably mishandled, have now recovered their courage and are appealing boldly to the peoples over the heads of the experts P The answer is surely three-fold. There has, firstly, been a great development in general education, with its corresponding effect upon the quality of public opinion. The first General Election in which the whole adult population was eligible tc vote was also the quietest, ( thfcjnost’ intellectual that has ever taken place in Great Britain. The reduction of the average voting age was accompanied by an increased seriousness. We seem to be succeeding in de-emotion-alising party politics. What more need then to exercise the old precautions to keep this or that serious problem ‘out of polities’ 1 To inject it into the political arena may soon become a means for ensuring its really serious and effective treatment’.”—Mr Alfred Zimmern, in the “Political Quarterly.”

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