“SUPER-GOVERNMENT" MENACE.

Shannon News, 16 October 1928, Page 3

“SUPER-GOVERNMENT" MENACE.

TACTICS OF N.Z. ALLIANCE. Among the Alembers of Parliament pledged to the New Zealand Alliance are a number who represent ‘‘Continuance” constituencies. This, in itself, is sufficient indication of the undemocratic policy of the Alliance, in attempting to force its opinions over the heads of the people. As the Clu’istcliurch “Press” said in a recent editorial, “there is no danger that prohibition will be carried by popular vote, but there is a risk that prohibition fanaticism may seriously dislocate the mechanism of politics, and the threats of the Alliance must be resented by all supporters of representative Gove) lime i.t. ’ ’ The New Zealand Alliance is not concerned with the welfare of New Zealand. It has only one avowed object —the overthrow of the Licensed Trade, and so long as it can persuade a Member of Parliament to support it, it docs not care a rap about Iris views on important questions with which the country has to deal. Its policy is to flood Parliament with men of its own ‘choice, who, they hope, will be ’able ,to “put prohibition; oyer” without the question being submitted to the electors at all. New Zealanders should give an emphatic declaration on Polling Day that they resent such attempts to tamper with the men whom they send to represent them in Parliament.* ®