THE POLITICAL PROBLEM.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10543, 27 January 1912, Page 5

THE POLITICAL PROBLEM.

r [To The Editor.! Sir, — One is continually reading of the tight corner the two parties ore hi, and the hard task set -the two ; leaders—either Sir Joseph Ward or/ (Mr Masisey—to form a working majority. Now, an you-r leader of today's issue you state that when the (people become a little more enlightened, party system will be abolished, and the referendum will be in vogue. \ | The aB now constituted mean, j that party friction will be in vogue, i 'and the. outcome will be—go hack to . ( the country, another general election;, and. more expense, caused by t party politics. Cam we not so>-e the s (party question? We do not want pa^ty; we want politics. Mary a memlber votes against has condolence I for the sake of party, forgelitinr that he- represents his constituents. Now ) is .the time for an. Elective Exi* utive- ) .Brill ,to. be parsed. Members the } House would : then clocit their , own 5 {Ministers, agart from, party dominaE ! tion, which would ensure the best E men for the various portfolios. Sure-.! . ! ly parsty system; would theti rcease,. I and instead of party politics we' • should have honest legislation.' We »' Ifcikrwvery well that there are men in. 1 the Liberal, Reform, and Labour Par- ;; well worthy and capable of ;' 1 lioldong a portfolio, men New 2fealaiid cannot do without; and -under the present system, they have \ ■ to be content witih a private member's f , seat, while party gives portfolios to V j men whxj hlave not got the same abil- ",'.:* jity. This has ah-eady'been proved; fl"hen I ,say that an Elective Executive : ■ llßil'li, s«ch as Sir William ; Steward..... } • (brought down year after^year, 1 would v isolve the difficulty; , .party friction, friction that [m the ' j past has cosfc'Sthe countey' nfadles® expense. There would 'be no stonewalling and needless date sittings at the. country's^expense, fox the f ake,,df paltry-, party supremacy. Sir William Steward stated that he knfV the f' (horrors' of party ; tout; until'•■; : , sucJS: time, as the Bill came- into *orc^' f•; Ke had to 'be a party man, arid '&s■-:-, r , Jong years in the House alone shoulei prove thathe ; knew theisralt of rjjarty :'■■'. j irule, and, that ihis (measure: would- i bring ajelief. -I think nx6mioers of'' ■ Parliament are like- Pilate ; ' ©£•. old;' ' ; they say, in reference to the EfcxtfiW Executive Bill, XTake it away, I finS ;nsJ; : fja^;in..it^'.;|»Tat,, J li& l .. pJaj*,^M*fe^ "■ w-^'^.: ■.■ .- '■ ■■■ ■ .' • • ■?' ■• '■;■:-?■• '•- '■]■ ■ .;■'■;. v.,r ■'•.