PANDERING TO LABOUR.
One of the most remarkable features of the political crisis in New Zealand i« the audacious maimer im which, the Ward party and tilie subsidised Press is endeavouring to placate-the Lahoui' movement. The. arguments • employed are a,s i&pecdoais as» they arte designing. With a -consistency iahai"act eristic of itllw? Ge.nitiuu©us <MiLni&try, iib,i.s sought to demonstrate that the only means iby wiiidh Laibour can seeui-fe adiequate represiejiitatioiii in Parliament its' by maintaining im power a Ministry which used every effort at the recent pofe to defeat the La.b_ | OiU'i" candidates. The sha-meltes® hypo" cvisy of those wfio would thius pan- ! der to a powerful ominwrity' with' a | view to obtaining a temporary advantage in politic® is i.o- unworthy as j to he beneath contempt. The wonder itsi that any setlf-respecting body otf poltticcanis would have the audacity to seek to curry favour with a minority whidhi, until the results of the second hal'lot were matte knowaii, it had openly despised.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19120102.2.13
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10514, 2 January 1912, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
162PANDERING TO LABOUR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10514, 2 January 1912, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in