“EXCEEDING MERCY.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 November 1924, Page 7

“EXCEEDING MERCY.”

BRITAIN. NOT SOCIALISTIC. BY CABLE—PRESS .ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Nov. 3, .1.45 b.m. LONDON, Nov. 2. Mr. J. L, Garvin, writing in the Observer, analysing the reasons for what Cromwell after the battle of Dunbar called .“exceeding mercy and seasonable deliverance,” says: “At first it was an anti-Soeialist vote. The fight has shown that the British people are not Socialist and never will be. Next came: the phalanx of combined motives. Britishers thought it high time that competent,- resolute attention was given to its own affairs. Upon no single aspect of domestic or Imperial interests could the nation look with more increasing disquiet and anxiety. The people hated the threeparty system,: and abhorred the repeated elections without a firm result. The election was finally and mightily to decide by the general feeling. Our commercial foundations and the working of the political system were becoming more seriously endangered than during the war itself.”

Mr. Garvin emphasises that the first subjects for the new Government to consider must be trade and unemployment, and affirms that the unprecedented, majority given is for constructive Unionism, and not for Con-''m-vaf isrn of the negative, evasive type He adds: '‘Without n food tax and f general tariff the Govern men t must (lo th-' utmost that can he done by ■nvomoting inter-imperial intelligence communications and transport, in concert with the Dominions. LABOUR’S FIVE MILLION VOTES. Received Nov. 3. 11.10 a.m. LONDON. Nov. 2. Lord Pi 'henlicad, in an article in the Weekly Dispatch, says: “Although the Conservatives won a glorious triumph, the faot that the Labourites polled more than five million votes represents :i serious menace to the future. Although I dp no believe those votes were cast for Bolshevism, they disclose a state of mind of the workers laying a great responsibility upon the Comervaties, who must regard with real symnathy and intelligence the workers’ legitimate grievances. If the Conservatives use their v opportunities wisely end conscientiously they may ensure at least a. decn.de.of stable government and recover Britain’s old prosperity and her former position in the world.—Sun Cable.