THE DEBATE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1375, 28 February 1912, Page 6

THE DEBATE.

MR. GLOVER AND THE WORKERS.

HIS SECRET OF SUCCESS, DESTINY OP THE LIBERAL PARTY. • The debate the no-confidence motion was resumed in the Houso of Representatives yesterday afternoon by Mr. A. E. GLOVER (Auckland Central), who opened with a reference to the Labour members. He said he bowed to no inan in his allegiance to the. working men and in his endeavour to elevate the masses to a greater and a nobler, and higher plane. He believed that in the immediate future the workers of the Dominion would prove an important factor in the constitution of the legislature, and while ho could not claim tho high degree of intellectuality or tho wealth, the possession of either of which was said to be sufficient qualification for a politician, he believed he possessed the undoubted perseverance and the untiring energy which would commend him to tho masses of the people. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Glover commended the proposal contained in the Governor's Speech to establish bureaux of justice. It was the duty of tho State to prevent rather than to promoto crime, and he considered that in addition to engaging Crown Prosecutors the State should provide Crown defenders for the assistance of those people who were unable to- pay legal fees. He urged tho rapid development of the lands traversed by the routo of the proposed East Coast Railway. From hi 9 own observation of it, he believed tho country was among the most fertile in the Dominion. It had been said that the motor-car had been a dominant factor in the last election, but he had the use of only one car in his constituency. Ten million pounds had been advanced by the various State Departments, and their losses had not amounted to .£200,' and against that record of assistance to the people the Opposition could not set a single charge of maladministration to justify its claim that the Government had lost the confidence of the country. Mr. Glover expounded the advantages conferred upon tho peoDle by such humanitarian legislation as that which established the old' age pensions, the national provident, and tho widows' pensions schemes. He was convinced that whatever might be its immediate destiny the Liberal party would rise again to perform even nobler works than it had achieved in the past, ensuring brightness, happiness, and contentment to the people of the Dominion. (Hear, hear.)