'SUPER-GOVERNMENT' MENACE

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10960, 8 October 1928, Page 4

'SUPER-GOVERNMENT' MENACE

TACTICS OF N.Z. ALLIANCE. . Among the Alembers of Parliament pledged to the New Zealand Alliance are a number who represent "C ontinuance” constituencies. This, in itself, is sufficient indication of the undemocratic policy of the Alliance, in attempting to force its opinions oyer the heads of the people. As the C hristi liurch "Press” said in a recent odboriul, "there is no danger that prohibition will be carried by popular vote, but there is a risk that prohibition fanaticism may seriously dislocate the mechanism of polities, and >the threats of tlie Alliance must be resented by all supporters of representative Government.” Ihe New Zealand Alliance is not concerned with the welfare of New Zealand. It has only one avowed object—the overthrow of the licensed trade, and so long as it can j>ersirade a Member of Parliament to support it. it does not care a rap about his views on important questions with which the country lias to deal. Its policy is to flood Parliament with men of its own choice who. they hope, will be able to "put prohibition over” without the question being submitted to the electors at all. New Zealanders should civ© an emphatic declaration on pilling day that they resent such attempts t > tamper with the men whom they send to represent them in Pnrlia-