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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3938, 11 August 1937, Page 2

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LORD SNOWDEN'S VIEWS. “ What you do find as you get older, and as you get office and responsibility, is that there are more difficulties in the way of your ideals than you ever believed. It hurts you to find you have made promises that cannot really be carried out at once—or anything like at once —in practice. To that extent I suppose it is true to say that as we grow older we become more conservative in mind. That may look like defeat, but it isn’t. Remember Gladstone suffering the same sort of disappointing hold-up. Read his famous speech—l ofrget the year—but what he said in effect was that, in spite o fall, the great social forces march on. That’s true. Nothing can stop the forward steps of man to his better destiny. “We were once completely communal, and, in the cycle, must return to something like that, though capitalism, properly applied, may well remain as part of the system.”—The late Lord Snowden.