PROVISION FOR SOLDIERS' DEPENDENTS.
Sir—You do well to insist upon adequate -■'}, provision being made by Parliament itself '■] for the dependents of married men. Iho '* people insist that this shall be done, in •*'* constitutional manner, by their representa- *\ tives in Parliament. Is government by the \* people to be set aside ? la a question on ■- * whioh the people feel so strongly and*,''* deeply to bo chosen for handing over responsibility to the Government? Does \ Parliament realise that the fathers of ten' •' thousand children are included in the 78.990 ',<: men who have already embarked-? The f people are prepared to be taxed 64 heavily * as may be needed to make provkion for * the dependents of the 7897 married men /' who have gone, for the dependenis of those a who have yet to go, and for the widows v <!; whose sons are taken. As a citizen 1 pro- *; test strongly against Parliament deputing ': its responsibility. "Riohard Milnes," said ";"> Carlyle to Lord Houghton, "on the day of ~^ Judgment, when the Lord aska you why "-; you didn't get that pension for Alfred *;\ Tennyson it will not dp to lay the blame ,£ on your constituents; it is you that will «-, be damned."—l am, eta, ' & September 19. J. S. SinclAib.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17114, 20 September 1917, Page 5
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