POLITICAL PARTIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22053, 8 September 1933, Page 5

POLITICAL PARTIES

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l ajrree with your correspondent Mr G. S. Thomson. I've been here all my life, and all the good Labour has done was to put a good Liberal Government out of power in 1911. and frighten the Liberals and Tories into one camp last election. Democracy is only a sham in the face of what happened in New South Wales to Mr Lang, whose Bills passed two Houses and are not law yet. This country would bo the same for Mr Holland's party with Upper Houses and Governor-Generals. Jove, the capitalist, strikes the toilers down, not when they set about climbing the ladders, but when another rung would reach the top. Coalition, even for the farmers, is the most, dangerous form of Government in the finish.—l am, etc., LIBERAL. September 6. [Only one Bill, introduced by Mr Lang, that was passed by both Houses of the New South Wales Legislature failed to become law. It was declared by the Privy Council to be unconstitutional. We have received • a second letter from "J. G. B." on the subject of political parties, but the correspondence is not worth pursuing in the form which it has taken.— Ed. O.D.TJ