WARNING SIGNALS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1935, Page 8

WARNING SIGNALS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—"To drive at full-speed.past all the warning signs shown by those who know the dangers of the road," to quote from the "Evening Post" article, indicates that the leaders of the Coalition overlook the fact that rashness cannot always be allied to courage. The passage of the Mortgage Corporation Bill reveals, with few exceptions, that individual followers of the Coalition have lost control over the administration of the affairs of this Dominion. Is it not time for the "sleeping sentries" to face cold facts and realise that sooner or later constituents will be asking for an : account of their stewardship? Support for the Coalition will steadily wither and die, leaving only the memory of a Government that refused to heed advice against carrying out a socialistic and dictatorial policy. ~ .;;; The real virtue of the policy of Coalition should be consideration for its effect upon the public mind, in a national effort to reach a goal of unity and contentment, per medium of just and equal laws. ■ The idea that free-dom-loving British people can be prevented from thinking and making their voices heard (in & "cWstitutional manner) is as foolish as it is false. What hope is thereof or demdcracy if leaders of what is supposed to be representative Government,, refuse, to govern in, a spirit of good will and compromise? i > -'-'■■

"Well may it be asked ,aro we living in a society which gives first consideration to the State, special consideration to the whims of "brain , trusts" and vested interests, and no consideration; to all the people whom the State should serve? II the Coalition is to survive it will have to be more responsive to public sentiment It will have to study the trend of world affairs and likewise admit that the majority of our troubles; have been born of our own economic mistakes, These same mistakes are being intensified by the refusal to recognise basic elementary truths. It was Voltaire who contended, "Many are destined to reason wrongly, others not to reason at all."—I am, etc.,

T. A. FRASER.