"TERRORS OF POLITICS."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 26 May 1915, Page 2

"TERRORS OF POLITICS."

In an essay on the. "Terrors of Politics," Mr Robert Lynd (London) has this amusing passage: "There is no amulet against the despotism of politicians, except living opinions among the people. It would be l polish, however, _ merely because politicians are in danger "of setting themselves up as tyrants, to propose 1 to exterminate them. They can, if taken in time and domesticated, be made at least, as ilseful as the horse and the cow. Indeed, so long as they are content to be regarded merely as our poor brothers, they can be as useful as any other human beings almost, except the saints. But they must demand no sacrosanctity for their position. At present, when they denounce people for abusing'them, they are as often as not angry merely at being criticised. They are too fond of thinking that it is the.chief function of the electors to pass votes of confidence in them. That is why, heartily as I love politicians, I would keep them on a chain. But I would not throw stones at them in their misery. I would even feed the brutes."