NOT TO CHOOSE, IS TO CHOOSE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 279, 25 November 1931, Page 6

NOT TO CHOOSE, IS TO CHOOSE

j\/Jl‘- W. DOWNIE STEWART did well to emphasise the responsibility of the indivdual elector to choose between the alternatives now placed before him at this general election. The Socialist, that is the man who is willing to risk his livelihood on the pitch and toss of a theory turning out right, when all the odds are against its success, is entitled to vote for the Socialist candidates, and to do him justice he can be depended on to do it. The elector who does not desire to see the Socialist experiment attempted in New Zealand should be more concerned to exercise his vote for the Government candidate than is the Socialist. This country will be judged by the world and particularly by the financial authorities of the world by the size of the vote cast in favour of the Government. All other votes will he classed as against the Government and inferentially as supporting the Socialists. The larger the Government vote the better will be the Dominion’s credit status. Despite the Government’s decision to tail-off in its borrowings it will still be necessary for the Dominion to raise further loans to assist the workless into employment again. Socialism implies repudiation and investors arc not likely to send their money to countries where there is not a solid margin of votes over those polled for the Socialist Party. It is the duty of the elector who would sustain the Dominion’s credit status to vole for the Government candidate. Not to choose is to choose.