The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 1 (May 1, 1932.)

The Heart of Democracy

The Heart of Democracy.

With the usual contempt for ages gone before, some superior person has witheringly remarked that Dryden wrote an ode to a woman's eyebrow. If Dryden had been alive to-day he would have been expected to write an epic about Phar Lap. One touch of Phar Lap made the whole of the people kin; and if only they would investigate the economic situation with the same united zeal as was displayed in Phar Lap's rise and fall upon the American turf, many things should be made plain. But in the presence of Phar Lap, the British surplus and the record American deficit leave people cold. Who can bother about them, when Phar Lap is dead of colic?