CORRESPONDENT THE POLITICAL POSITION.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1919, Page 5

CORRESPONDENT

THE POLITICAL POSITION.

(T6 tho Editor ) Sir,—Tim . wonderful Mil of fare that Sir Joseph Ward has presented to the country ! n tho Rhone of his political programme leads oi c to the Inevitable pouiilnslnn that he has adopted Carlyle's ciassillcation ot mankind—'So many millions, mostly fools," Had he a private treasury of thirty or forty millions v;hlch ho was prepared to scatter broadcast, he might possibly be enabled to redeem half bis pledges As It Is, the majority of them art Impossible, and he knows It, but, like tho fuherinan who loaded his not with bait of all kinds, he hopes thnt each unit will seeuro Its particular catch of votes TCvervthlng ,1s ii. be nationalised,' everything subsidised, free tnucntion from the cradlo to the grave, houses ;>ro to go up everywhere, prices are to go down, shipping companies are to reduco their heights, etc. I had thought to see some \;ord of craw censure both of the cause of prtlon both of him and his followers which has left his former colleague, almost wlthMtt warning to face tin Immensely difficult position, with the added burden of piles of \-ork of which he has lost the run This may be party politics, I suppose It l», and a perry enough specimen of It, but it Is not lommonly fair, honorable, or honest, and of ctAirso, It is not gentlemanly, but It stamps tin! men, If not tho party, who have been eullty of It. But as Hooker remarked centuries ago—"He that shall go about to perauade men that they are not as well governed ».s they ought to be shall never want for patient and attentive hearers"—l am, etc., COMMON SENSE.