THE ELECTORS' DUTY.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 281, 6 December 1911, Page 4

THE ELECTORS' DUTY.

Two or three factors play a tooimportant pa.it in elections: (1) Personal predilections and antipathies; (2) senso of individual discontent; (3) outside considerations; and it is incumbent upon, tho elector who would serve his country (as an elector should) to rise superior to these; and, fixing his eye on the issues that matter—the vital, issues—to record his vote in the direction best calculated to servo those interests. in the present election, all over New Zealand, the fundamental principles or Liberalism are at stake, and the future of our lands. The land is tho country's most valuable .asset, and it depends upon, the electors now, whiether they will support the claims of thy party who have inherited the policy enunciated by Sir John M'Kensde (and which, has produced such admirable results in close' settlement), or whether they will cast their votes for a party which, inherits all the traditions of 'monopoly. It is for us all to bo careful how, on any sligllt ground, wo nullify the great work that was the outcome of devotion, and in tho prosecution of which, 'noble lives have Iwen. laid down. For tho Opposition is now making its last desperate hid for votes. It stands before the country in the garb of Liberalism; but though, it promisas smoothly freehold and limitation or area, etc., and continuance of all the beneficent laws that have been placed on the statue hook, tho promises of politicians -when they are at the last extremity are not worth much. Besides, the parallel of the Ethiopian's skin and the. leopard's spots will occur to everybody. Those who cast a vote for the Opposition party are in doing so dealing a blow at freedom and progress.