THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1912. ANOTHER PARTY.
Under the above heading the Wellington Post of yesterday discusses in a more or less eerieus vein the prospects of the formation cf an entirely new political party in New Zealand. There is no doubt that among young JSlew Zealahdcrs in . particular -there its a growing dissa'tisfaetk-'n at iihe waste of timie -and money 'resulting 'from the system of Party Goverhmeirt -as it is at present Irjnb-wn-. There ;is a disposition! to throw off the 6-haekilcis *;jf Liberalism on. it he one hand and of -Radicalism on the other, and to 'farm a'p?,rty which will he • in&pi'red by -a zea'l for ithe development of a .purely E'atioirr',l icantimer.t. The -Poet sayeJ that what the people want is iv .stable Govern met.!;. Tl.lat' iis jtjrue, isto far as it goes. But hew is a stable 'Government to be formed, unless it he hy the amalgamation of •idle Moderate ferccts inside and out- ', aide of PalrHameinft? An appeal to the country on the present Party lihe.-j ■wauld prob.aih.ly make cc'mfusion the worse /c'orlfounded. Gin the one hand we have «t!ho fear of ultra-Co n'servat<jsm, on the other the peril of ultraRad'icalJsnv. There .aire men. om hoth 'sides of ithe House who are fired with ambition to produce' at coalition .which wlitl -afford the covAnttry a better choice lof (poli'tiics' than itliat v.'hidh the doxriinadt [parties 'new cflbr. -Tilie Labour Patty affects to provide the happy Imodium, but thie very m-me e'f ("this section' mill icemde'mni it with moderate-tbiinlkiin,g people. Why (should net a Young Xt;w Zeala'nicl Party he fanmed, ideals of .pr.ltriotislm and a wilKngn'efis to kg:VslaH:e on sane national' Mrues? Ireland has 'a NititioTi'ail Pa'lty 'which sfondis 'solid oni All qitea'tions.affecting its materiall progress. 'France has a National Party. .Canada lfos a! Nrit&toiall Party iwlu-dli swept the polls at the fast elec-, ition, when the menace' of afosldr-ption iby the United States was halraging
■r.ver ihe-hcsdis c-f tiro- people. Ijf Mr' Massey &pd the ntcde'tfate section, of ]iiis .parity wi3l mic-t idcntesce wiifli tlio (rvJcderr.'te ewti-mi- cf tihe, •Mackenzie party, and vice versa, it will be tlie' duty and the privilege cf ilho=e y,oiwig men. who 'hftwe tho we!fb:*e- cl the Dominion truly at heart jjo adept such measures as will produce order out of what its admittedly chat©.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10665, 21 June 1912, Page 4
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389THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1912. ANOTHER PARTY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10665, 21 June 1912, Page 4
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