The Coming Elections.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17104, 28 March 1921, Page 6

The Coming Elections.

To-morrow is the last day upon which applicative for enrolment 0:1 the municipal electoral roll can be loceived, and we hope that there are ao: many who stand in need of. this vemindcr. Tho right to vote is one which citizens are apt to exercise less firmly than most of the other rights they enjoy, because they .do not all realise how mudh this privilege means to them. Its effects are not immediate, visible, p.jid personally felt, but they are there all the same. Appeals to individuals to discharge jl, duty which they owe to "-he community at large ar.e not very effective at any time, and we wqulcl therefore, appeal to ttio self-interest of tho individual voter. Nowadays the election of the City Council is not a matter of choosing between men who differ only in capacity and character. It is a matter of choosing hotween men who stand for the general interest of all clashes in the city on >-he ojje hand, and on'the other hand men who stantl for one section only. The Labour Party wishes to control the city with the purpose of furthering the ends of revolutionary Labour mjd of .embarking upon a programme of unsound and inequitable enterprises. It is*well organised, and it always secures that its fujl strepgth will be exerted at tho poll. . Those Who do npt. wish to aee the cj,ty handed over to sectional domination of this kind aro a majority of the citizens, but they are unorganised, and they ate in the nature of things less keenly alive to the issue t4jai> are their opponents. Unless they realise ill at if they have opinions worth holding they should take the natural raefms of opposing those opinion^"they do not' like, and make euro that on polling-day they will h,e flble to vote. ■JUie tipae W short for those who haye ao far neglected to enrol titemselves, "but it is pot yet too late for them to repair their neglect.