THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 283, 3 November 1925, Page 10

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

(To the .Editor.) Sir, —On the eve of tlio general election wo feel that a few words to those who are undecided which way to vote —a word in season—may lighten the burdens of agitated minds. After liytenmg to Mr Nash’s commonsense speech at the Coronation Hall last evening We aro of the opinion that there is only one way the people of Palmerston North can record their vote on Wednesday and that 1 way is to record it for the Reform Party by returning Mr Nash to Parliament. Wo have listened to the mouthpieces of Labour expounding their party’s views, and while being in accord with a number of planks of their platform, we cannot, as sound-thinking men, cast our votes for a party which, when the turmoil of war and strife was rampant against the Empire to which we belong, definitely refused to assist the workers to defeat an enemy, so cruel and so callous, who, had they been successful, would have ruled this fair land with an iron hand much stronger than the Labour Party would like to rule, if they had the reins of Government. Wo want to impress upon all our old comrades that the man who was always handy to do the job is the man we want to have holding the reins of destiny, of our country near and dear to liis heart; ior ho realises that much depends on sane administration and careful handling of the country’s resources, just as he realised, when lighting shoulder to shoulder with his comrades in the mud-trod-den and shell battered trenches of Flanders, that only stubborn resistance to an overpowering evil could ever expect its defeat, and no doubt to-day tho extremist element in the Labour movement is the overpowering evil of the Labour Party. We have before our minds the wonderful reception of the late Mr Massey on his visit to SliiifT Camp, when 5000 Now Zealand soldiers were drawn up on Signal Square to hear him speak. Wo also have the same picture when lie visited tho division in France, tho great encouragement given to the men by bis never-lailing enthusiasm, even though at heart he knew we were up against it. Those, sir, are facts ancl wo urge every true digger to rise to the occasion and support the man who supports tho party who has as its leader Mr Coates, a tried and proved ancl worthy soldier and an able Premier. Let silly accusations receive their just reward, and remember that the only success that is worth having is that success which builds itself, up by that true spirit of comradeship and the brotherhood of man, as personified bv Mr Coates and the true diggers of New Zealand. IVo are, WC . ( . ERS .