THE ICONOCLAST DEPARTS
Although results are not yet complete, it is already abundantly appar■ent that Mr. Lang has reeeived his just deserts from the electors of New South Wales. With his passing, departs a demogogue of the most dangerous type, a man who exploited the weakness of democratic Government and held it up as a rag for ridicule before the world. A great deal of balderdash has been written about Lang and his political antics, hut politically unbalanced as he was, he had at least one virtue. He broke down and trampled upon all the gods of political convention but hy his sheer iconoclasm, he succeeded in stimulating the sluggish processes of political thought to an active and lively resistance. Without Lang, New South Wales would never have had the representative and energetic Government with which it has now been presented and its people would not have been p.rovided with a very useful lesson in what to avoid in political clap-trap.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 250, 13 June 1932, Page 4
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161THE ICONOCLAST DEPARTS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 250, 13 June 1932, Page 4
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