"Taranaki Central Press” WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1937. ABOVE PARTY CONFLICT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 431, 12 May 1937, Page 4

"Taranaki Central Press” WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1937. ABOVE PARTY CONFLICT

The Monarchy is the symbol of the home life of the nation, writes a historian. It is the symbol of the peo-ples’ greatest common measure of agreement. It enshrines all the ideals and causes upon which the people are united. Of the three great national institutions concerned with the destiny of the country and its velfare, the Monarchy, the Parliament and the Church, the Monarchy alone stands fixed and stable, unaffected by the conflicts of parties and sects which divide and distract the people.' The Church using the term in its widest sense is riven into sects almost numberless. Parliament is a tumult of political and social theories. The House of Commons is always in a state of flux. Members sent there by the people are constantly coming in through its swing doors and going out never to return. A Prime Minister, or an Archbishop of Canterbury, could never become an object of deep and continuous regard, not to say of worship as a national hero. There is only one man who stands for the whole nation—above all its sectional interests of party and class, above all its diversity of opinion, feeling, and sentiment and he is the King. For, despite the divisions of politics and religion and social state, there exists in all circles of society an abiding sense of a common national history, of a corporate life and needs in the immemorial structure of their political society, which inspires and gives an ardent zest to patriotism. Is not England a land of ancient renown? Is she not great and powerful? Is she not the traditional home of freedom? Is not the King the head of the oldest Royalty in Europe? Is not the British Ihrone the most glorious in the world? This collective sense of the greatness of the country, this national fellowship of spirit, finds its completest expression in loyally to the Throne. All the national traditions are monarchical. The unity of British history and its continuity are realised in the Monarchy. Attachment to the Throne is in the air, is in the soil. It is bred in the people’s bones; it runs in their blood. Kingship has launched a thousand historical and constitutional panegyrics. Poets in their attempts to interoret its mystenes and defend its sanctity have hung about it the filmy stuff ct which visions are made. What gives it its brightest glory is m the soul of man. Its great strength lies not in logic and reason, but in instinct, intuition, sentiment, emotion all the innate subconscious forces of the natural man. !t is really the most wonderful thing among human institutions. All the glories of the past, and all the vital things of the present, are associated with the Monarchy.