POLITICAL V. COMMERCIAL

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 4 December 1919, Page 2

POLITICAL V. COMMERCIAL

[By " Wayfarer."] \| To-day an unfortunate development is taking place at the ' hustings when one part}* boasts : of their candidate as a man of long and successful "commercial experience." This is fine phrase- fJ , ology, but does it always offer a * " guarantee that he is going tq make t\\e lqt of thie masses qetye? if elected, than the man with no' commercial experience, ■ but a - man who has rpughed it in ourforest country and who has been .^ bogged on our main arietfal roads'' j& for days at a stretch, has seen V the wants of our people at first -'. hand, fought in trenghes'and V" ditches, and who is able the . U better to fight for the under- v/£? current of our population to-dajLj^ On the one hand we have a ,-; politician by nature and hard * ** experience who is. willing to fight for the uplifting of the masses. On the other, it is possible that ' - $he man with long and successful pusiness. or commercial experi- "j£ enqe is likely to be^mqre^)n= £ oerned about the^widends of "", his particular enterprises than \ he may be in uplifting the lower * strata of the underworld, or in reducing the cost of living.