PARTY POLITICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21132, 15 March 1932, Page 6

PARTY POLITICS.

HAPPENINGS IN SYDNEY. REMARKS BY CLERGYMAN. "I am not a party politician," said the Rev. F. D. Brandt, speaking before the Presbyterian Men's League at Goulburn, New South Wales, lately, "and this is not the day for party politics or divisions. Everybody is disgusted with the condition of party politics, and the happenings in Sydney during the last week were a disgrace to any party. For a Parliament to spend a whole week in these troublous days arguing and blackguarding each other about tin hares shows political bankruptcy. "We are also bankrupt morally. Sydney's atmosphere is thick with suggestions. Questions are asked about what this man got' out of it or what the rakeoff was for that man. In Sydney a big transaction cannot be mentioned without somebody being accused about commissions. The whole atmosphere is thick with suggestions. That it is so shows we aro bankrupt morally. '"We ought to have clean politics. If men call each other scoundrels and mongrels in Parliament it is a rotten state of affairs. It might be true, but you cannot always speak the truth. The Christian Church demands that Parliament shall be a place where gentlemen meet. We say that this blackguardly conduct must stop now. This is the day when two million people in this State are yearning to God for a way out. Those appointed to lead should lie men clean hearts, pure men, who work in Christian charity,'!