CORRESPONDENCE

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1927, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE

LIMITS OF POLITICAL ACTION. (To the Editor.) Sir, —It is nearly time our people, who have had the franchise for many years, learned to understand that there are limits to what can be done by politicians. There are economic laws which operate independent of all political restrictions. There are natural conditions which the ready politician may promise to over-ride and give the people something out of a hut that is not in it. Just as the quack will propound miraculous remedies he can supply without reference to the natural laws governing man’s body, so the Socialists and Communiats profess to handle tho body politic and do things which are impossible without harmful reaction. We cannot make the supply of wealth greater by more political regulations. It is the economic factor which counts in that direction pot the political. It is beyond the power of Government and Parliament to do certain things with assured results in the direction hoped for. Once we realise the limits of political action we shall, as a people, be loss ready to blame the Government for things no Government could help. We shall also be less readily taken in by the political cheap-jacks, who make impossible promises and present their ease in gilded tales of what they will do if only you will trust them, and not inquire too closely into their underlying objectives. In polities, as in business, the test to be aplied is how far the professions are honest and practical, —'We are, etc., N.Z. WELFARE LEAGUE. Wellington, Oct. 13. WANDERING STOCK. (To the Editor.) Sir, —I would like to draw the attention of county councils and borough councils, too, to the danger of stock which is allowed to wander at night to the great risk to motor traffic. County roads, especially, suffer besides the danger to traffic as the result of wandering stock. In the Huiroa and Kaimiro districts it is particularly bad, and it would pay the county to keep a ranger on regularly. At Kaimata recently it took me an hour to clear my drove from half-a-dozen calves, and the damage often caused by the rushing and tramp in separating the stock, particularly ia cuttings and fillings, will often take the roadman a day to repair. Then the roadman is blamed for being slow. Pigs, too, in the Kaimata-Ratapiko have often been found busy at the side of the.metal digging as if under contract to destroy tho road. Farmers should study their own interests and karap stock off the roads, as the rush and excitement caused in separating stock sometimes tire travelling stock more than a five miles journey.—l am, etc., DROVER. Waitara, Oct. 13.