THE OPPOSITION VIEW.
It is frequently alleged that the Opposition want all borrowing to cease, thus stopping the progress of the Dominion. The progress that is entirely dependent on the expenditure of loan money is progress on the road to ruin, but there is legitimate borrowing, required for the development of the country, and to this the Opposition would offer no obstacle. What they would stop, if they had the power, remarks the Christchurch "Press," is the borrowing of money to pay for current expenses, and the wildly-improvident methods of expenditure in which the present Government habitually indulge. The country at present is in the position of a coach, the horses of which are bolting downhill. The Government declare that, in order to stop it, the Opposition would run the coach into the bank and upset it; but all that the Opposition would really do—all that would be necessary—would be to apply the brake and put a more careful driver in charge of the team. The coach would continue on its way, but safely instead ot recklessly.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3029, 28 October 1908, Page 4
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177THE OPPOSITION VIEW. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3029, 28 October 1908, Page 4
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