DISTURBING POLITICAL MEETINGS

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

DISTURBING POLITICAL MEETINGS

Sir, —Your leading article of this morning is very much to the point.-The inferences which you draw are so very obvious that they must bo quite evident to all but the obstructors them selves. There, are surely none so blind as those who are determined not to see. “Save me from my friends” may well bo the prayer of those whoso partisan* they are. Even if such elements should succeed, by such moans, in winning an election, their representative could hardly feel proud of such constituents whose actions proclaim louder than words their unfitness to gevern. Surolv those who do not know how to rule their own actions are the last to brent rusted with the government of the nation. I was struck very much by a remark of a prominent preacher in one of our local churches cn Sunday last who said that. “A rm'” should al wavs be a gentleman even when he is fight ing the devil.” “Fair play is bonny play” has al- - been the dominant trait of the Britisher, and that this spirit is not yet. dead is being evidenced in Aus trnlia to-day in its determination not to allow the spread of Communism. When an elector, recognising his responsibility to his country, attends a nolitical meeting, he. at least, hopes to listen to reason and not to waste time listening to tho bedlam produced by those who are incapable of reason. This is surely no time to “fool and fiddle while Romo burn**. ” Trusting that common sense will nrovail here ns it has dono in the Mother Country, vours. rec.. “ELECTOR.” Wanganui, November 24, 1931.