MOTOR CARS AND INTIMIDATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12982, 25 January 1910, Page 4

MOTOR CARS AND INTIMIDATION.

True to Tory tradition, the members of that party in the Old Laud are employing all the old unscrupulous tricks to block reform, and the squire and the parson are bard at woik on behalf of the wealthy and privileged classes. The squire intimidates the country elector into voting Tory by telling him he will lose his billet if hi* vote Liberal- Then the parson—wh >. in England, is generally an awful toady to the squire, and a consistent bully oj the “lower orders”—draws a. harrowing picture of t,he miserable lot which w'ili befall the agricultural labourer or small tradesman who votes Literal. The average English country voter is uneducated and often unintelligent, and the fear of losing billet or business is to him a more powerful argument than the national welfare of his country. Then, to soothe and flatter the ignorant elector, along comes the squire's motor to drive him to the poll. Motors are often useful at election time to carry persons whom their owners would never cive a ride to at other times. Hie Tory, knowing that he places his own individual well-being before the national wellbeing, somehow has an intense desire to make everybody see with his eyes, even if he has to bully them into doing so.