RIGHT PRINCIPLES IN POLITICS

New Zealand Tablet, 30 December 1920, Page 33

RIGHT PRINCIPLES IN POLITICS

lhe following extract from the American Bishops' Pastoral is of interest " Politics 5 has for its aim the administration, of government in accordance with the ; "express'' will of-the people and their best interests. This can be accomplished by the adopton? of right principles, by the choice r f h y^f^ ldate «;foT office,-the,direction^f partisan effort, toward the nations true welfare and the purity i o f elections but- not by dishonesty. v The idea that ? pontics is exempt from the requirements of morality is false and Pernicious; rt is practically equivalent to the notion that "n govern„»ent there is neither right nor wrong, and that the Mill of the people is simply an instrument to be used for private exchange.. .Each citizen should devote a reagovernmtnrbv °t tim6 to "-intenance of right by the exercise of his -, nolitical rio-nto \ 2 e ' P He , SU " I , understand the i-L r 'ta are ? SII f "t? the .P co Pte. and endeavor to co-or,erate with Tin * hy a " the