The Manawatu Daily Times Britain’s Calm

Manawatu Times, Volume 59, Issue 272, 20 November 1934, Page 6

The Manawatu Daily Times Britain’s Calm

“Many people have realised that a feeling of restlessness id this country is not a revolt of the ‘have nots’ against the ‘haves ’ ” said Mr. Baldwin in his address to the conference of Conservative Associations. “It is something more deep and honourable. It is restlessness against the subordination of the human by the mechanical. There can be no permanent social order in any country except by the full recognition of the social needs and the social aims of men and women. 1 here was (Toino- to be in many industries in the future more leisure than there had been, he continued. There was probably going to be more unemployment than before the war, until the world was better adjusted, and that was the social problem they had to face.

The problem was to prepare the people to utilise their increasing leisure worthily, and to see that those who could not get work did not lose their manhood and their womanhood. “We Tories,” he said, “as part of our heritage, have a profound sense of the value of historic continuity and of gieat Constitution, and it is a remarkable thing that in some oi ihose years when all the world was rattled soon after the war there were Englishmen who said, ‘Look at America and Italy, and even ‘Look at Russia; see what they arc doing.’ You do not hear so much of that now. Did you notice in the last foitnight, that the French Prime Minister and the President of the United States each bade their people look across the sea to this little island ?

When people look with wonder at this island and say/How is it that you have stability which docs not seem to exist in any country in the world?' the answer is that our Constitution lias grown up in the way it has. The great danger of tampering with the Constitution is not to change it, bat to cut the deep roots which go down to our very being. ’ When the next election came, Mi*. Baldwin concluded, all of them, whatever they called themselves, should stand for the maintenance of their institutions, the preservation of the Empire, and the improving of the conditions of the people. England would be preserved once more by what was infinitely of more value than all her accumulated capital—her cumulative experience, her traditions, her character, and her people.