PRESS OPINIONS.
There are worse things than a general strike, and one of them is the base peace secured by a Surrender of public government to a menacing minority. We are bound to say that the policy of Danegeid was the policy pursued by the "Liberal"' party both ibefore and after Sir Joseph Ward's notorious declaration at Kaitangata that he would suspend the country's laws in favour of the miners then on strike. They advocate that policy today, not because they do not realise that it is fatal to good government and public security, but because the public interest is less to them than the good-will of the Labor Federation. — Christchurch 'Press.' The present Government have already shown that they do not truckle to parish appeals in the servile manner of their predecessors, and it is to be hoped that in this important matter of railway construction the Dominion's interests will no longer be sacrificed to the exigencies of the constituency.—iManawatu 'Standard.'
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 September 1913, Page 4
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162PRESS OPINIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 September 1913, Page 4
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