Our Tools of Downing Street

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 295, 25 October 1922, Page 4

Our Tools of Downing Street

■'■SsfT —s —* » —■*-&» — "' The universal condemnation of Lloyd George in England should serve as a guide in dealing with his political

tools in this country- From all quarters, where the people lmow him best, he is being denounced as a trickster, whose policy, domestic and foreign, has brought disaster upon the nation. Yet he needed but to lift his finger to secure the most slavish compliance 'with his wishes from the Government of New Zealand! It is now clear that In the judgment of the people of Britain Lloyd George pursued a wrongful policy In the Near £ast, and for this, among other things, the penalty is shortly to be awarded. What then are we to do with Mr.'Massey and Mr. Wilford, who pledged us behind our backs to a move which the British, knowing more about it than we dp, are satisfied was. a.menace to the Empire?. Dr. Gibb in the sermon we published last week said that the issue was not, f'My country, right or wrong/ but Messrs. Lloyd George and Massey right or wrong, and that's the truth. And the pair of them wore wrong! Well, what.is to be done about it? We should wipe out poiiticians so utterly irresponsible as to bind us to policies of blood and death without the slightest enquiry as to what they are about, and so morally deficient as to gibber. "My country, right or wrong" when their country (its people) was denied the opportunity of deciding on the merits of the question.