“SUPER GOVERNMENT” MENACE TACTICS OF N.Z. ALLIANCE. Among the Members of Parliament pledged to the New Zealand Alliance are a number who represent “Continuance” constituencies. This, in itself, is sufficient indication of the undemocratic policy of the Alliance, in attempting to force its opinions over the heads of the people. As the Christchurch “Presa" said in a recent editorial, “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 politics, and the threats of the Alliance must be resented by all supporters of representative Government." The 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 persuade a Member of Parliament to support it, it does not care a rap about his views on important questions with which the country has 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 give an emphatic declaration on Polling Day that they resent such attempts to ta'hiper with the men whom they send to represent them in Parliament. 6.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1928, Page 3
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219Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1928, Page 3
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