MR. SAVAGE'S MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 10

MR. SAVAGE'S MEETING

NEWSPAPER COMMENT (By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.") DUNEDIN, This Day. Commenting on the Prime Minister's address in the Town Hall last night, the "Otago Daily Times," in an editorial, says: j "The only impression to be taken away from the Prime Minister's meeting was one of his reluctance to come Ito grips with facts that are implicit [in Labour's election programme. That [ programme has been published at the ' dictation of a Socialist caucus, but it jis never expounded in its obvious implications from the public platform except by those who are opposed irrevocably to its imposition on demo-ci-atically-minded people. Socialism, admitted or repudiated as the occasion may seem to require, has always I been at the very core of the Labour policy, yet the Prime Minister, to whom the country is entitled to look above all others in the party for utterances that are clear and to the point, con-i tinues to attempt, in a smother of treacly platitudes and meaningless generalisations, to hide that fact from an electorate which has seen for nearly three years legislative processes directed towards one end only—the creation of a Socialised State."