PUBLIC OPINION

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12251, 24 September 1925, Page 4

PUBLIC OPINION

“SPOILS TO THE VICTORS” (To tile Editor “N.Z. Times.”) Sir.—Your leading article of to-day under tho above head is characteristic of tho methods usually employed by tho conductors of the “New Zealand Times” in their embittered attacks on the Labour movement. Tho declaration that the New South Wales Labour Party in office is pursuing a policy of “Spoils to the Victors” in declaring in favour of the movement for an increase in the salaries of members of Parliament, is too stupidly malicious for anything. In the first place, the increases will be jeceived by all members irrespective of. party. How, then, can the increases represent “spoils to the victors?” In the second place, with the possible exception of “The Times,” everybody in New Zealand knows that all parties in the New South Wales Parliament joined in the movement for the increases—just as all .parties in the New Zealand Parliament in 1920 joined in the movement for the increase from £3OO to £SOO. . . , If your “leader” containing the charge of “spoils to the victors” was written with the knowledge that all parties in the New South 'Vales Parliament were associated in the movement for the increases, there is no' word in Webster that would adequately describe the mendaciousness of those responsible for that piece of mud-flinging. If the “leader was written in ignorance, it is high time someone started a class in current history for the benefit of “The Times. May I add that I would not insult the editorial intelligence by charging that the falsehood was written m ignorance. I am, <**■> LEE

fEdilorial reference is made -to this letter.—Ed, the “N.Z. Times.”]