DISCOURTESY TO OPPONENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22743, 2 December 1935, Page 7

DISCOURTESY TO OPPONENTS

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —May I voice a protest, through your paper, please? lam not a politician, thank God. but, being a true Briton, I take exception to part of Mr Munro’s address to his electors on Wednesday night last. Instead of thanking the electors, and standing down, he must needs go on to abuse his beaten opponents. That is so entirely un-British that I am led to wonder who and what Mr Munro really is. , : Says he: —“The people must have patience with the new Government, because the mess that had been left by their political predecessors could not be cleaned up in a hurry.” To say the least of it, those words are mean and paltry, and, to go further, they are probably a gross exaggeration, if not entirely contrary to facts. . We are not quite all the stupid, gullible creatures that Mr Munro and his kind think. But then, Mr Munro is greatly given to hyperbole —it makes a show, but is very misleading—and I would remind him that the true statesman (if he should have hopes) never resorts to hyperbole, and is always fair and courteous to his political opponents.—l am, etc.. Be British.