JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE!

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 November 1928, Page 11

JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE!

(To the Editor) Sir. —Locally, we have reason to congratulate ourselves upon the eminently gentlemanly way in which the contest lias been conducted by both candidates in the. field—conditions which will doubtless remain, unsullied till the poll settles the matter. Between the great parties, Reform and United (and the only two parties worth a moment's consideration by all who love their country and who love liberty) there is no great fundamental difference. In leadership, oil the one side we have youth and vigour and by no means an unskilled determination to carry things through. On the other we have undeniable and proved financial brilliance and the matured wisdom of a lifetime given ungrudgingly to the service aE Ids country and the Empire. The lommonsense of our people can, 1 think, be safely relied upon. This alone will save us from weird ami ghastly experimental blunders, brought swiftly upon other lands, and whose awful experience we can not ai'tord to ignore. The sharp lessons of the hist few weeks coming to us from our nearest neighbour. Australia, will not be lost upon us. Our own recent labour troubles resulting in unemployment, although mild and gentle by comparison, have largely arisen from a' similar pandering to an impossible ideal. The people can be trusted to avoid the obvious and humiliating and artificial evils created by unwise measures elsewhere, and whose fruits are clear ami palpable and inescapable. Night inevitably follows day, and men rarely gather grapes from thistles, nor figs 'from thorns. —L am, etc,, 08-SERVER.