ELECTION APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 130, 6 June 1929, Page 11

ELECTION APPEAL

SOUTH AFRICA'S FUTURE

SMUTS CALLS FOR PEACE

THE LARGER' OUTLOOK

United Press ■ Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian Press Association—United Service. CAPETOWN, sth June. General Smuts opened the last week of the South African election campaign with a great demonstration in the City Hall, which was packed. Loud-speak-ers carried the speech to minor halls, and still thousands were unable to gain admittance. General Smuts emphasised that the Government's surpluses resulted from over-taxation, particularly of the food and clothing of the poor. He accused tbe_ Government of prostituting the Civil Service, and instanced cases of deserving servants being passed over .for political henchmen. He stressed the statement that General Hertzog's bogey o£ a native menace had stirred up- strife and deserved punishment by the electorate." Peace gave opportunity for constructive work, but General Hertzog manufactured danger. ' HERTZOG'S NATIVE POLICY. General Smuts pledged his party to the maintenance of the solemn settlement by the National Convention until it was changed in an equally solemn manner by another convention.' He pointed out that large native territories did not yet _belong to the Union; also that the Union policy would react in Rhodesia and Central Africa. General Smuts read a message from Tanganyika, stating: "General Hertzog's policy will deliver us to barbarism. We want to join hands with.you to build up a white civilisation." Concluding, General Smuts appealed for a larger outlook not only in Africa but throughout the Empire; "Let us follow the example of Canada and Australia. ■■'■ Let us say good-bye to the disputes and bitterness of the past. Let us bend our energies to .the task and make a great contribution to progress m South Africa, the-Empire, and the world.'.' '•■■.■:■ .