"LET THEM ALONE."

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 4

"LET THEM ALONE."

I "What this country wants is to be ' left alone. Let the people alone," said Mr. A. L. Herd man, M.P., in Wellington on Wednesday. This is a pretty piece of moralising ,on the I part of a city politician. But it does [ not quite fill the bill. This countryhas been left alone far too long. It has been trying to work out its own savaltion, but it has received no assistance from those who have been paid to assist it. The people have been allowed to almost starve in their utter loneliness. They have asked for bread, and have been giver slabs of useless legislation to make thch- hunger the more acute. If Parliament would only take hold of this i .country and shake it up a little; if it would abandon its shameless bickerings and playing of the game of politics; if it would evolve a statesmanlike policy of close settlement and pursue it with ardour and persistence ; if it would rise above petty squabbling and the insatiable lust for power, and do something, New Zealand would occupy a more proud posif tion in the overseas dominions of the i Empire than it does to-day. j