INTOLERANCE.
(To the Ktlitor of the Herald.)
Sir,—An American poet, James Russell Lowell, writing in the, middle of the last century said :
"Once to every man and nation comas the moment to decide. In the strife of truth with falsehood for tho good or evil side." And when we see tho stagnation around us to-day in the shape of unemployment and its attendant evils, I for one believe that tho electors on last December took the evil side as far as the Maesey Governinent is concerned when they (the electors) put that body into power. It seems passing strange how an educatedcommunity are swayed by the grandiloquence of a cortain brand of political candidate whose, only ambition in life is to secure for himself a, seat among "the elect" with all its sinecures and honors. There are glowing instances before everybody's eyos to-day in tho shape of unemployment- as a result of political inertia, while everybody's memory is fresh with beautiful word pictures of a social* and economic millennium within their read},', as dpp'icteji by tho aspiring politician.—l am." etc. UNEMPLOYED.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16122, 10 May 1923, Page 9
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181INTOLERANCE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16122, 10 May 1923, Page 9
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