MR COMBS LECTURE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 2 August 1916, Page 5

MR COMBS LECTURE.

- Cromwell as the ie&tier of a force whk>3e unbroken senes or victories rendered ,lum pne-emijoent -an- the rield, carried over into the political and intrigues of a troublous era, the prestige and support that his ".New ->lodei Army" gave him.' How the very- force which lifted Jlim into the dictatorship presented ji„s establishing any premuneiit brc/ad based system of government in place or tlie disrupted monarchy, how li.s personal gem as and unwan.-; self devotion prevented England from lapsing into a state of Ui.aich.y more fnghtrul than the generation of ty.avail, from which she had just emerged, how in spite of his signal services a reaction set in immediately upon his death. These are threo curious points well worth th# endeavour to explicate them. as "int&re&bing, -and •«>•»< m. more pertinent to wir own times, is the inquiry into the upgrowth of the historic parties which have swa*e» the political -destinies of England almost ever since Cromwell's decease. Kot a few at all times have roundly t; .'ndemned party government. Why it should so inveterately pers.st in the face of so much contumely and aversion to it, an historical investigation of the subject can alone explain. The .introductory stagey of such an investigation will be made at Mr Combs' lecture,, regaining which an advertisement appears on another page, and in connection therewith the onh'if are particularly requested to nito that this week's lecture will, beconducted on Thursday evening and rot f'n Friday as heretofore. PATRIOTIC MOTORISTi . Keep British money in the Ivmpire —.ivhcn hnyinz tyres, insist on Worvd3'ilne Sm-ci ah—Treads—real non- *■ kids. Thev carry a guarantee r, f p."00 miles, but 10.000 miles has been secured from them in some instances hr New Zealand motorists. Every r'vnnd spent on American tyres goes ■K lipln American manufacturers and : p *sib!y provides work for Germans r-d A'ietr'nns in the T/nitr-'l Starts. 7T ~lp British Workers and Brirish francos —von do so every t r me von |v~- « tvre. Wnm for Price List to N.Z. "Depot, 107 Vivian Street, Wellington.*