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Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1933, Page 4

Ik is nearly forty ycf.vr's ago since Bord Randolph (Jinircnill, one of the founders of the Primrose league, used words which had been the guiding star of the work of the league during the generation since he passed from tnen and were their guiding star today. Those words uene:—“The reason tor the development and the growing power of tiie league is that its objects and its aims are high. The maintenance of an ancient Monarchy; the consolidation of an unequalled Empire; til© preservation of national morality by the connection of the State with a pure religion, the vigilant guardianship of popular rights as the diffusion of knowledge and the progress of society may demand; the vigorous and earnest promotion of every social reform which can in any way raise the character and condition of the English people. These are the objects of the Primrose League. They were the objects of Lord Beaconfiekl’s existence, and they will be prosecuted by us in his memory and in his name, though his presence be among us no mere.” That was the pure doctrine cf the Primrose League, said Mr Stanley Baldwin speaking at a recent meeting of the League. In these shattered years after the war they had seen their ancient Monarchy preserved when crowns had toppled over op had been flung down in half the ancient kingdoms of Europe, Truer even to-day, jf possible, than whop those words were spoken was the preservation of national morality by the connection of State with a pure religion, They had seen what happened to countries when national morality failed. They knew the attacks made in certain quarters on revealed religion and why they were being made, because till the beliefs of the people ill revealed religion was sapped, undermined, and overthrown there was no ground for that diobolical bate without which Communist triumph and supremacy could not be achieved.