THE CONTINUOUS MINISTRY.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10470, 7 November 1911, Page 4

THE CONTINUOUS MINISTRY.

In connection with the necessity for removing the Continuous Ministry from office, in which, they have become mouldy and weather-worn, the Hawer-a Star quotes from John Stuart Mill's essay "On Liberty," in which he refers to the need of conflict in politic® if there is to be progress- and if the people are to get a full view of .truth, remarking that in politics it is aLmiQ&t a commonplace that a. party of progress l or re- ■ form are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life, and after referring to the subjects of political! controversy in England, he proceed®: "Truth in the great, practical concerns of life is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites that very few have mindsi •sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness, and it has to be made, by the rough process of a struggle between combatants fighting under hostile banners. 1 On any of the great open questions just enumerated, if either of the two opinion® has a better claim than the other not merely to be tolerated, but to be encouraged and countenanced, it is the one which happens at the particular time and place to be in a ' minority. That is the opinion which, for the time being, represents the : neglected, interests."