GOVERNMENT INCAPACITY.
"The right thing appeals to me like this," said the Rev. J. J. North, "that this alleged reduction is simply another proof of the absolute incapacity of this Government for anything like resolute action on any moral or social question. I call it a plus and minus hoax. We began the war racing 250 days a year. Everybody remembers, and social reformers are likely to remember as long as our history continues, that since the war began our singularly irresolute Parliament spent days in debating an increase of racing, during the agonies of Empire. Forty days or so were added by statute to the existing 250. When the question for diminution arose the Government suggested reduction by half. The racing dubs, after putting up a lot of soft talk from their president, suggested a third as the measure of reduction, and a weak-kneed Government accepted at once. The result, of course, is that we have added forty, we take off a thirdfrom the augmented total, and the real reduction is contemptible.
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Northern Advocate, 30 June 1917, Page 1
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