SANE POLICY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 246, 17 October 1925, Page 18

SANE POLICY.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Your leaders on " The Labour Platform" including the " Anti Navy Nonsense," are convincing. The people generally are influenced by exhibitions of the faults of governments highly | exaggerated, and some otherwise good | citizens are caught napping. The , Labour party seems to be blind to the good points, or even impr.vements to meet present day demands of the people, or else claim them as their property, having been honoured or stolen by their oponents as sops to keep the people in bondage to what they are pleased to call capitalism. All thinking people are ready to admit weakness or bias in the best of governments and should never fail to point these out with the intention to demand improvements, but to rush with the giddy multitude to destroy a reasonable structure because it is not perfect is bordering on madness or worse. Persistent demand for improvements, an introduction of advanced new blood, a goal to be reached that will benefit the masses is to be desired, but instant, revolutionary suggestions would only loosen the corner stone of sound governments and bring the building toppling on our heads. I fear this campaign is guilty of too much personal abuse, and should be conducted solely on merit alone.—l am, etc., SOUND PLANKS.