POLITICAL ETHICS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 193, 2 August 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL ETHICS.

TO THE EDITOR. 1 Sir,—l was very much pleased and gratified with your leader on Political Ethics, and I realise by it that it is possible by the power of the Editor’s pen to raise our moral tone and conuuct in politics both in and out of Parliament, and your labours in this respect will be well spent, as undoubtedly the manner and language of our public meetings are not what they ought to be. No matter whether it is a Town Board election meeting, or a political meeting, there does not exist the conduct which characterised so many of our departed leaders of politics—men who although opposed to others in their opinions and proposed measures, yet had sufficient courtesy to discuss them in convincing language without abuse, and to recognise that all are entitled to hold their own opinions. If you only half-succeed in your task of trying to raise public discussions to a higher level ,you will have attained that which should have made you proud of your labours, for you will not have laboured in vain. Undoubtedly the idea of many of our would-be politicians is that abuse of their opponents is a becoming weapon of warfare, forgetting, as they do, that personalities are not politics and abuse is no argument. Wishing you every success in your good intentions and endeavours.— I am, etc.. OLD POLITICIAN.