OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
Retrenchment is always an unpleasam business, and as such it gives the politician a tempting opportunity for eultiA-ation of cheap popularity by an uncompromiing opposition. The Labour Party has succumbed to this temptation, but the Liberals have not. There are, of course, anomalies and defects in the Government’s retrenchment scheme. It would be beyond the power of human ingenuity to devise a scheme dealing Avith so complicated a matter that AAmuld not be open to just criticism and capable of serious improvement, and ev'ery critic Avho can point out a defect and suggest an appropriate remedy rendering the State good service. But in the presence of such a crisis as that with which the country is now confronted the normal cavils of party controversy are utterly out of place. The call of patriotism is just as clear at such a time as it was during the war, and we have perhaps no right to be surprised if the members of the party who vvere deaf to the call then are showing themselves equally deaf noAV. —’’Evening Post.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2031, 24 January 1922, Page 4
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179OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Manawatu Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 2031, 24 January 1922, Page 4
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