TIIE '-IKS" AND "OfTS." (t is quite exasperating to witness llic frenzied efforts of ii soclion of the press of New Zealand to denounce the llovernment and turn it out of power, and the complacency with which another section views everything that emanates from Cabinet emu-lave. Party politics have reduced us to the unhappy position of having to declare that everything one political parly does is right, and that anything the other party does is wrung. None hut a deepdved hvnoerite would that the "outs" are ahvny- wrong, and viceversa. Our electoral system, however, has so dimmed our nersneetive and obscured the vision, that we are stultifying ourselves as a people and breeding a community of hypocrites and humbugs. Tf we coulil only apply those common-sense principles to our politics that we apply to our business life, we would abandon the party system entirely, and replace it with something more rational and more equitable. We fear, however, that self is such a preponderating influence in the politic* of the day that there is liltle hope s.r immediate reform in our representative system.—'Wairarapa Age. SIMPLY WOXRKIUTL. "My little girl Zehla suffered so continuously wiih croup thai I began to think she' would never get better,' writes Mrs. Oauntlett. lii!) Adelaide road, Newtown, X.Z. "Seeing Chamberlain's C'ougli Remedy advertised 1 thought I would try it and could see a change in her straight away. Tt is simplv wonderful bow quickly Chamberlain's Cough Peinedy relieved tile
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 8
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243Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 197, 18 February 1914, Page 8
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