LABOUR ADVENTURE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 12, 15 January 1936, Page 7

LABOUR ADVENTURE

the new government. WORTHINESS OF THE MM. rj)ND()N, De-. l-L The congratulations of the New ling lish. Weekly io the Labour Party of New Zealand must, in the words of th*’ Editorial Committee, “be tempered by a reminder of its responsibilities.” "The programme with which Mi. Savage was able to unite the electorate of both the countryside ami the towns consisted of the National Control of Credit. In a sentence, Labour offered, ‘without inflation or deflation, to en aide the people of New Zealand to pm chase at ecoiiom: - pi ices the full value of the Dominion's lotaj production. ’ “All the world has noticed, part of it with unconcealed derision, that Lab our has not yet very clearly d-Gined the methods by which it. will r,•aiise its avowed aim. Not even the most, venal organ of Fleet Street, howev-r, has dared to deny the worthiness of the aim. Let Labour, then, abide by its stars. The people of New Zealand, the best educated in the world, one of the most efficient, and, as Lord Ble<EsJoe has just confirmed, loyal though Labour, has followed the great lead of the people of Alberta. It has had the courage to abandon the National Govern merit’s more and more economy-, ami has had the moral sense to reject the callous appeal of the new Banker’s Party, the ‘Democrats,’ forsooth, to let posterity face its debts as we had to do. The New Zealand bankers, as was to be expected, are now in the field of propaganda in a stale of agitation hitherto unmatched in any country, and all their efforts are d.recti-'l to re establishing the closed mind on the subject of finance. New Zealand must not, however, bo deterred from the achievement of the task to which she has set her hand. By voting once more for light and adventure, Now Zealand is pledged to advance that progress in civilisation which she almost initiated with old age pensions.