WAIT AND SEE.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 279, 5 November 1924, Page 6

WAIT AND SEE.

.(To the Editor). Sir, —Your correspondent,"“John the Ploughman” in his latest letter displays a moderation of feeling which is very gratifying, but he eontunics io confuse old-time Toryism with presentday Conservatism; he knows well enough that tho two have little in common, but it suits his book to cite abuse? and customs of half a century ago as evidence that the present Conservative party is reactionary. Tho force of public opinion banished executions and open-od picture galleries and many other S laces of recreation on Sunday; his late lajesty, King Edward VII. was fore most in patronising the latter movement; it was the Lord’s Day Observance Society (a non-political body) that did its utmost to make Sunday a day of gloom for the masses. In a former letter “J.T.P.” deplored the trend of national education us on couraging militarism; now he blames tho Tories for opposing such education in the past. I would refer him and his friends to Lord Birkenhead’s statement iu “The Weekly Dispatch,” which shows that the Conservative’s are fully alivo to their responsibilities to regard with sympathy and intelligence the workers’ legitimate grievances” Probably the word “legitimate” is tho bono of contention between “J.T.P.” and tho writer of this letter —let us copy Mr Asquith and “wait and sec.” —I am, etc., PRO I’ATRIA. Hastings, Nov. 1024.