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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20263, 4 August 1937, Page 2

Dangers to Democracy.—“ Tf we are to retain our democratic right of liberty in New Zealand, all sections of the people must be prepared to impose voluntary discipline upon themselves, and that applies equally to the farmer, the wage earner and the business man.” observed the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Hon. W. E. Barnard, in addressing electors in Napier last evening. Mr Barnard said that under dictatorships people were under subjection and no upheaval or breakaway seemed possible. Under a democracy the position was different. Discipline was not imposed from above, but must be developed from within the individual and voluntarily accepted. If that discipline broke down through large scale lock outs bj employers or wholesale strikes by workers in defiance of the law as it stood, democracy was at once endangered and might even fail altogether.