THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 May 1925, Page 4

THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

(To the' Editor.) *■ Sir. —Your splendid article o n the above subject in Tuesday’s Star lias, I feej sure, been read with by all subscribers to your paper. The qualifications of the suggested successors to the Premiership were clearly and concisely put, as were also the descriptions of the “two distinct schools of thought” which may be said to exist when taking Dominion politics in the abstract. But the suggested fusion of the Be for nr and Liberal forces, if undertaken by the Parliamentary representatives of those forces, would be too far removed from democratic principles for a democratic country like, New Zealand, which stands for “government of tAe people by the people.”- Whilst d->-ploring the fact that we: have, one political party that seems to be “standing in the middle of the road” . and preventing progress in our Dominion politics, yet we cannot alter the Parliamentary representatives of that party, or any other party, to decide the party’s fate. This decision js distinctly the right of- the electors to exercise through the medium of the ballot, and there surely can be no fairer and more democratic iwav. If one ballot will not suffice, then we must have another, and perhaps still another, until the people of this Dominion do as the people of Great Britain did a few months ago-put into power a Government, with a substantial working majority; and it goes without saying that that Government will be either Reform or Labour. Any other course than this would not only be undemocratic, but would deprive our political parties of the opportunities of displaying those traditionally British'characteristics . of “fighting to the last man” and “going down with colours nailed to the mast.” Thanking vou in anticipation, —I am, etc., ‘ REFORMER. Hawera.