MR MUNRO'S SPEECH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22738, 26 November 1935, Page 8

MR MUNRO'S SPEECH

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir, —In reply to your footnote to my letter in your issue of this morning I wonder what would be the best course for a Government to follow in the event of private interests blocking the people's will after it had been clearly expressed at the polls on two separate occasions. Perhaps a third appeal to the electors might be effective.

Mr Munro expressly said that lie was speaking metaphorically; and his meaning (perhaps loosely expressed) was that a Labour Government, if armed with a double mandate from the electors, would brook no opposition from private financial interests, but would, if necessary; remove these interests from the path of progress. His remarks, taken along with their context, would never have been given a sinister meaning by the average citizen had they not been artificially magnified throughout the country. Those making the outcry are. of course, onlv electioneering, but. at the back of it all. one senses the influence of the great private money power, with which the people of this country may soon be at grips. The logic of this conclusion is not so " obscure" as party allegiance might make it appear. —I am, etc.. S. [" S" seems to know better than Mr Munro himself what the latter said.—En. O.D.T.]

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,—Why all this bother about Mr Munro's statements at his Woodhaugh meeting? I hold that ho is to be commended for his honesty in giving expression to views tie to policy and methods that arc the true attitude of the New Zealand Labour Party. Perhaps we must admit a change a few months back when Labour conceived the bright idea of temporarily enlisting the farmers for the election. If a candidate speaks as Mr Munro has done it is but right that we should have H reported to us. It savours of hypocrisy to find Messrs Jones and Neilson making such frenzied outbursts. Are we not aware of the fact that similar views have been openly expressed in Parliament and outside?—l am, etc., Candour.