“CAPTURING” PARLIAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10732, 1 November 1928, Page 2

“CAPTURING” PARLIAMENT.

ATTEMPT TO DEFEAT BALLOT BOX.

When free citizens rote for tilt preservation of tlieir rights and privileges in no uncertain voice and ; & minority organisation tries to bias Parliament in opposition to the ballot —it is surely time that people awoke to the danger and rigorously opposed all measures designed to interfere with the time-honored traditions of SsfThlmn attempt to push asms thg* d&feiom of the ballot boB islbp#atrveLhiJNew Zealand, and jmnEgis -?otIrs o®ierstand the sifiiatran, dm* polit leal gf tMti|s^l|ma i irk:es w' the election vop>#agail§®Prohibition. Having faded? in thiff direction to force J their policy upon the people, the New Y Zealand 4^m nce introduced the di&r creditable American weapon of tampering with the House of Representatives, by tying members. pledges.' Electorates which xPast an overwhelming ContinuanceJfote find themselves represented by a member secretly pledged to betray them. This ‘Sunsfr-Government ’ is a blot upon political life and unless itJs quickly, roqioved free-born New Zealanders will be the victims of .vicwfiis legislation, passed in oppositionfio their will as expressed at thoymllot box. . Allianpfr methods of “chaperoning” the prople are not wanted in this land of liberty. Our democratic institutions are being assailed and unless the people protest against the encroachment, upon their liberty, their rights will be flagrantly violated by secret “Super-Government-.” Every right-thinking New Zealander wilLcxpreSs disapproval of this insidious peril l<y .voting. Continuance.***