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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1927, 28 October 1926, Page 6

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“When you have not got a thing you often want it badly. When you have got it you may lose all interest in it. This- applies to politics as to other maitters. Men and nations struggle desparately for self-govern-ment. After that has 1 been granted they do not take 'the l slightest trouble to govern themselves-. They will flight, and evenclde, to 'secure the vote. They obtain tlieir voltes ant.l neglect to- use therm. Deny them the franchise, and they have an intolerable sense of injury and are ready to embark on revolution or rebellion in order -to redress the wrong. Yet the privilege extorted by so many years of effort fs treated with strange indifference when the fight is over and forgotten. Nearly every member of Parliament has been returned by a minority of his constituency. Another minority has votct.l .for his opponent; and a third minority, perhaps as large as the other two, lias not voted at all.’'—Sir Sydney Low in the “Weekly Dispatch.”