OUT WITH THEM!

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1259, 14 October 1911, Page 6

OUT WITH THEM!

Sir,—Wo must judge (his Guvonuvent not by its promises, but by its jx<rl'orm> aliens, by our financial burdens, by our land system, and by the condition of tho 3 wealth-producers. Our financial burdens , nro largely increased, our land system keeps an immense majority of tho people 15 landless, and these people are poorer too day than lliey were a decado ago, while tho cost of living is much higher—lo or s5) per cent higher—and employment: generallv scarcer and more precarious, These are hard, slern facts which the Minister- ■ ialists ignore, but which are not ovorr looked by impartial and intelligent voters, 0 The working of theso terrible facts was - plainly seen at tho meetings addressed by t 'Sir .lollii Fimilny this week in tho Par--1 noli constituency. Sir John's promises and . his ideals went for nothing. His hearers ) judged him and his colleagues on the hard I 1 acts, on their sins of omission and come mission, and the verdict was one of em- - plialio ; condemnation. It is a just verc diet. The promise of a commission to illjl ( iuirc into the high cost of living was rok ceivpd with derisive laughter, and many a uncomplimentary exclamations. Tho peoII P'o bow very well that tho Customs s tariff and land monopoly cause tho high ,t cost of living. The Government knows u u 100, but it has not had tho moral couri ? ee .'?„ n PP,'y remedy, .Therefore, it t is rightly doomed to destruction. A proi- pesed Liberal-Labour Government that ale lows the people to be lieeced by monopold ists for 20 years, that maintains hundreds ,t of grinding taxes on labour, and that proi- iiiires no real redress of their grievances if ought to bs wiped out of political lifo. l " >m ,s nn n ' )stac '° to progress; it is a curse. )- llic people now clamour for a bold leader s who will deeply pledge himself to remove t all economic injustice in the lifctimo of i- ono Parliament if returned to power. Any other kind of leader is not worth hit a salt.—l am, etc., •{ EDWARD I'. EVANS. Auckland, October 12.