OUR PUBLIC MEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2471, 24 August 1922, Page 2

OUR PUBLIC MEN.

AND A THREATENING DANGER. In the course of his remarks at Monday night’s valedictory function, Mr E. Newman, M.P., said it was the custom of a section of the press lo deprecate Parliament and to 'under-value the services of the Dominion’s public men. It should be remembered that there was a section of the country which wished to bring Parliament into disrepute and, indeed, to destroy Parliament. It was a mistake to belittle Parliament, because there was no more honourable set of men in the Dominion than its members. The honour of serving their fellow-men was the motive that took most men to the House. There was no money to be made in polities. Speaking as a member about to* 1 retire, he wished to say if there was one danger that threatened this country, it was that of the spread of what was known as Bolshevism. This was the last opportunity he would have of speaking to them as their member, and he wished to say that nothing was more important at the present time than that they should have men in ]>ower who would support law and order, do what was right* and endeavour to strengthen the finances of this country and put them into a sound condition. The extreme Labour party was a real danger to this country as well as to the Empire. “I regard their propaganda with abhorrence and I believe that the great majority of decent-minded men think the same,” concluded the speaker amidst applause.