POLITICAL SCAPEGOATS

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 3

POLITICAL SCAPEGOATS

TO TOE BDIIOE. Sir, — I' see that not a few of yonr contemporaries are indulging in severe, if not savage, strictures on tihe Departments of Education and of Health—and on the Ministers in charge of those Departments. Now, while it cannot be disputed that conditions, generally, in both of those Departments are painfully unsatisfactory, it is grossly unjust to hold the Minister of Education and the Minister of Health responsible for those painfully unsatisfactory conditions. Mr. Massey the other day (conscious of the ems of omission of the National Government), auctions to disarm criticism and throw political dust in the eyes of the people, in reference to the "responsibility" for the ravages of the pre&ent epidemic, lightly suggested that no one in paxticular was to blatne-^-we were all to blame! Jfot so fast or so frivolous Mr. Massey! You and your National Government are primarily responsible for the flagrantly unsatisfactory condition of tilings obtaining nnder the auspices of the Departments of Health and of Education. The supplies which your Cabinet tad f •ritaauutfc not* for the norjam of «fe«*fr*&* BaWvhMt*!»»

shamefully inadequate. If the Ministers of Health, and of Education consulted the best interests of their respective Departments, and also their own dignity, they would forthwith resign and challenge yourself and the Minister of Finance to do ditto (instead of going off to London). What is thifl Dominion going to have to show for the sacrifices and suffering of the past four years? Probably, as the result of your missionary' journeys to London, nothing more than the betitleing of certain military and Ministerial muddlers andmediocritiee.—l am, etc., demos;