POLITICIANS PILLORIED.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19066, 3 October 1933, Page 9

POLITICIANS PILLORIED.

“SPIRIT OF THE PIONEERS”

COLONEL CLOSEY’S RAILLERY. Some brilliant sallies at the expense of the Government, politicians, and orthodox economists were scored by Colonel S. J. E. Glosey, of Auckland, in his address at the Winter Show Hall last evening. “We are told by some members of the Government that what we want is the spirit of the early pioneers,” said the speaker. “To-day New Zealand has tenfold more problems than those which faced the old pioneers. If any pioneer landed here now he would scramble hack to his ship and go for his life. (Laughter.) The Prime Minister believes that t’ac depression has been sent to test our stamina. I wonder when this evilspirit will be satisfied, decide that we have enough stamina, and give us a certificate of clearance. This depression is not a test of stamina, but a test of the intelligence of our politicians, and they have been found wanting. “There are three families living in one house at Arch Hill In Auckland, and the house was condemned by the sanitary inspector, yet a Hamilton timber firm has over 6,000,000 feet of timber to spare. Are we sane?

“It Failed.’* “We were told to wait for international aotion. It was said that the conference should not fail; it dare not fail; It must not fail. It failed. I can tell you in confidence that the next suggestion is an inter-planetary conference. (Laughter.) I would give a fiver to light the fuse to send off the Prime Minister and his staff in a rocket. (Laughter.) “According to a document signed by our Prime Minister at Geneva, if we capture prisoners of war we must return them fit and healthy to their own country. Yet we do not treat our own people so well in a land of abundance. “We have heard much about a nation being unable to spend" more than it learns. There is another truth which is more important. We cannot earn more than we spend. We must have purchasing power to shift goods, and the credit must be a national possession and must be mathematically calculated. “If you support the Central Bank Bill money and loans may become a little easier and things may improve. But the road will be greased with the butter of good intentions, so the politicians can make a grand slide and get it all over.” “ Surely in a land flowing with good tilings idle men should he better employed than attacking a dock leaf from three sides.”