DANGEROUS ELEMENT.
EXPENDITURE IN AUSTRALIA. STATE ACTIVITIES CONDEMNED. (A.P.A. and “Sun” Cables.) '(Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. The Premier (Mr Butler) speaking at a meeting of the Australian Natives Association, said that Australian Governments had more or less engaged in activities which it would have been as well to have left to private enterprise. Politicians had been encouraged to court popularity and support by lavish expenditure of public money. This had become one of the most dangerous elements in political life. If it continued it would have a demoralising effect on the individual and would cause chaos. There was still a new country to he developed, and they required for it men of the pioneering spirit.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 92, 28 January 1928, Page 5
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