OUR PUBLIC MEN.

Otaki Mail, 23 August 1922, Page 4

OUR PUBLIC MEN.

WHY lilifi ENTER POLITICS. In the course of his remarks a' Foxton last night. Mr E. Newman, M.P.. .-aid it was. the custom oi a section of tiie press to deprecate Par'.ia- ' men; and to under-value the services of the Dominion's public men. It shoul I be remembered that there was a section o:' the country which wished to firing"' Parliament into disrepute and. indeed, to destroy Parliament. It was a mistake to belittle Parliament. because there was no more honourable set oi" 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 !-.•• made in politics. Speaking as a member about to retire', he wished to say If there was one danger threatening in this country, it was that of the spread of what was known as l'.oisi;. vism. This was the last opnortuuity he would have of speaking to them as their member, and he wished to say that nothing was than that they should have men in power who would support !aw 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 th.s country as well as to the Empire. "I regard their propaganda with abhorrence and 1 believe that the great majority of decent-minded men think the same." concluded the speaker amidst applause.