MAKING A CHOICE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19438, 26 October 1925, Page 6

MAKING A CHOICE

(To the Editor). ! Sir, —Ono can forgive a certain .amount of heat at election limes; where there are wide differences of opinion there is bound to be a little heat. But there is no excuse for guttersnipe mud-slinging tactics as though New Zealanders were Apaches, nor is there, to my mind, any necessity, even though one may recognise their cause is lost, to tell deliberate lies. 1 notice that certain local Nationalists, who will apparently descend to any strategy to advocate their j lost cause, aro announcing in large [type that Reform promises arc “like pie-crust: made to be broken.” Though previously feeling more inI dined to side with Labour in this | contest, I feel now constrained to vote for Reform. I look dowu tho list of . names I see interested in their platform, and I see a great number of men I whose honesty could not bo impugned —men to whom, taken ail in all, one would feel quite safe in trusting his life in a tight corner. 1 cannot believe that these mon would tell lies or would make promises that they did not conscientiously believe would be carried out. Imagine yourself in a tight corner on the battlefield; which way would you turn? To men who write such rub bish as the statement that Reform’s promises are made to be broken—write it well knowing that they cannot substantiate it—or to men who risked their lives for their country? Can one imagine a man -who has faced death a dozen times, like Mr. Coates has, stooping to a lie? It would be a good thing if tho electors when voting would just conjure up that mental picture and ask themselves which is the typo they would most trust in that predicament? A stock-breeder will always breed from type, and if the electors aro honest, with themselves they will vote for the typo they would choose when asking themselves tho above question. At any rate it will certainly decide my vote after reading tho stuff the Nationalists think it necessary to print to bolster up their candidate’s chance. —I am, etc., COMMON SENSE.