STRANGE CLAIM.
POLITICAL ANCESTRY.
NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTY.
(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday.
Biblical history was quoted in the House of Representatives to-day by Mr. \V. M. C. Denham (Government, Invercargill) to prove the ancestry of the National Political party. "One of the fundamentals of the Opposition Iβ a free field for profit-makers and encouragement of private enterprise," he said. Mr. Denham said lie believed that everybody should receive adequate remuneration, but greed for money was a different thing. "Christ said some hard things about the profit-makers," he continued. "On one occasion he got a whip and belted them out of the temple and said he had entered a den of thievee." The political philosophy of the National Party was profit-making, said Mr. Denham. It was not a new party and its history could be traced throughout the Christian era. He claimed that the political ancestors of the National party were the money-ctiangers of the temple.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 280, 25 November 1937, Page 10
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