PUBLIC OPINION

Hokitika Guardian, 24 December 1930, Page 5

PUBLIC OPINION

MR BALDWIN IN BRIEF. ] “Let me summarise our policy. Rigorous economy; reduction of taxation ; thorough reform of the unemloyineiit insurance system; effective protection for our manufacturing .industries against, foreign competition by., the immediate introduction of an emergency tariff; a ' guaranteed wheat price for the British farmer, combined with a tax on foreign malting, bare ey, and the prevention of the dump-', ing of foreign oats and other produce a system to secure a definite market for home-grown and Empire wheat, and, finally, concerted action with the] .' Dominions in order to promote the economic unity of the Empire/' ;: ] ; -Mr Baldwin. , . WHAT INDIA MUST REALISE. “A nation which is to develop sellgovernment properly must be a homogeneous nation, with a common tradition whjcli enables its members ‘to agree to differ,” as members of contending and yet not .lrreconciable parties, and to let their differences be decided amicably by the decision of the majority,” writes Professor Ernest Barker in the‘Contemporary Review.” “Moreover, self-government requiries not only national homogeneity, but also individual disinterestedness —a willingness of representatives to serve the nation freely, for the nation’s sake, and not for the sake of locality, or connections, or family, or self. Such disinterestedness is not an easy acquisition. It is a disinterestedness—steady, daily, prosaic—which the citizen must-show, in every office in which he ‘bears the person’ -of the community, when the heroic days of struggle, the Garibnldian days, are over, apd the long, trial of the ordinary days succeeds.”