PERMANENT PROSPERITY OR PARADISE REGAINED.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10738, 8 November 1928, Page 3

PERMANENT PROSPERITY OR PARADISE REGAINED.

(To the Editor.) , Sir, —Ths United or Benighted, party is offering the people of this xa.r Dominion a great lot for nothing, which they infer all previous Governments have failed to do. The party’s promises in your issue of today, and the dodgers flying around are “too sweet to bo wholesome.” Commencing with the £7o,o'J‘U,6oo. we have experienced too any booms and bursts, and it is now time to go easy; more especially when the late slump is past history and conditions are becoming normal. So far Sir Joseph Ward and bis colleagues have failed to show how money borrowed at 4J .per cent, at 95 can be lent at 4$ per cent at par without making a loss; and, consequently, having to increase taxation to-make up the shortage. Regarding th,e other promises which look so good on paper, one cannot help thinking' that the new party must/ h;> • e nti’e •• - spect lor the intelligence of tlie electors when asked to swallow such twaddle, which comes from a" few disappointed and" embittered ’ ex Reformers. I have more faith in .the electors of the district to think that they will be .leijl away with _s<..i h propaganda. Sir Joseph, in his short speech at the Christchurch 'railwaystation, did not improve matters; but makes! his case look 'mere lidi■culous. One-cannot forget ah limber of his actions when Prime AUiiistei and iu the Coalition Government, and also that of his local candidate iwhen, with three others, :a$ members of-'the Gisborne; Borough Council years ago, they'made a point of consistently stonewalling and a’low-' ing them .’to air their eloquence till the early hours of the morning on any proposal which did not come •from them.—-I am yours, etc., UTOPIA UNLIMITED.