STANDING BY PRINCIPLES.
Anything' which muzzles- and handicap? the press, which brings it into disrepute, which misleads the public as to its purpose, strengthens- and consolidates the grasp upon administrative authority of those who have adopted politics as their chief business in life. Statesmen do not cling to office. '.l.'hey invariably seek to carry into practice principles to wnich they are devoted, and leave office gladly when they cannot carry the country with them; .they invite discussion, encourage public opinion, delight in debate and argument. In this they differ fundamentally from tiie professional politicians who aim at office and eling to office and who feel as a personal injury every argument which threatens their office-hold-ing or interferes with their prospects. The paradise of the politician would be a country in which the press could print only what pleased him, in which elections would merely forma,! and in which criticism upon his project's would be treated as treason to the State.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 104, 18 September 1912, Page 4
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160STANDING BY PRINCIPLES. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 104, 18 September 1912, Page 4
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