THE POLITICAL CRISIS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10513, 30 December 1911, Page 4

THE POLITICAL CRISIS.

.The-crisis witch has ait sen kii New Zealand- polities will, when- coupled wilth tlie disgraceful scenes enacted ia tilie New South Wales Legislotiure, serve to draw pivbilic atteinitiibn to the. incoi.(griUous positions* which may arils© under the party system of governimcttit, and hasten tlve d'ay when' this wilt) be superseded by something inoi<e iiii keejcing wi'ttli the enlightenmelnt of the age. It is, perhapfi', not too much- to hope that tdi)© outaosme of tli© present deadlcck will b© the adoption'of the' S\\iss system of elective Ministers, under why_h a certain niuniiber of men aa-e ctosen, by tGie. vote of. the populaa 1 Cllnamheir, to carry on the work of -an' Executive). The defeat of a Ministiry would not, in* tlieise citt'ouniiSitlanceiS, involiye resigniation, nor woudd it mean anotheaappeal to the country. Metaibers of Plai-alianaemb wonlQi then be able to resipect- tQifiat pledges', amd vot» ais tilieii' conscience, dictated, without i:mdue (influence beittig brought to hear upon them. Th© tenacity with wiliicli mocJarn legislative infitd'tautioms cl&ng to a Party system, which is preigauantt of corruption and devoid of statesmiaiishSp is one of th© marvel's of the century.