MR. RUSSELL IS AMUSING.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2002, 9 March 1914, Page 4

MR. RUSSELL IS AMUSING.

A gMa? deal of. space was given! by the Anti-Ecfovm journal at OhristchHirch last week to a Mfiec'h by Mi}. G, W. Ik'SSELt, who will be recalled no doubt as member of what, has been styled the "T«n-Mkute Ministry." Mr. itosafiu/wHs also I a member .of the "Cmflinittee 01 i Public Safety," which the Opposi-j tioH Party,' in the-" absence of a | loader, set tip fc& watch the partyV interests in the House of tives. So it may .be tiikn that Mr. Bussbll is quite a icadiijg mcßil)erof tlw party,-and speaks with som« : authority eoacerhine its •'hopes and aspivßtions. Uiilils Sir J'OSEPir Waisb, the niembor for Avon apparently thinks it quite time that sijm.: sort of a jiolky elvotW bo But W* : ward by tSe Opposition; antl, hrs kackr having failed in 'this respect, Mb, Russell has come forward tosupply the long-felt want. He has been eareful to explain that it is not the party's policy, but what he believes tho party's policy should be, and this is what it is: It would be the- duty oi the Liberal Party to tackle siekncSs, incapacity, Ufte»ploymonti. ignorance,, incampetoiice-, proatjtatian., immora,lity, the giimM' inft_ evil, and the drink "evil, this jpolic.v nia.y seem a Jittje vague ; ant| indefinite, bat it has tie merit oi appealing to all classes, Everyone, for instance, wotiM like to see sickness abolished.; it would save an ciLorftiottS amount of \vastc if incapacity, ignorance, anct eiMB eoiilcl be.done away with,". an 4 the stippfession of the other evils enumerated would also no ■donit win sympathetic, .support fat the "literal" Party. But, un.h.a-ppily, Me. RussEti declines to tail us how te is goijig te mic all these ills ■which hnifta'n mktva is heir "to. "He was not ett'lled upon." he saicL "to say by what methods LibG.rafe.m would doal in detail -wifch these otobleros. They must judge by. Liberalism had don.6 in Wpist' what LibefJi'Ksni would do iil 'the , future." , ti Mlj r s JJiW3EM,. a^pparcM-ly,, . was fta-jfcfl" **»TKfu&- ■yv-lib'fi he said thisi-. Possibly it was an oversight 011 :Ins.' paft tji.i/t h<? omitM- from his-poHey the abolition. of all poverty, btartf--] skip, antl suffering. . Seting tba-t te it as oiv.rtc ■unnecessary to inform the public as to hew he. proposed to earry. out hh betinficeat s'chftfHSs for tlje retfonera'tiion of n»n-' kiftd, he roiglvt just as \\i% while w Was at it, have dort^tte thine' thoroughly. , It bow re"h»i;ns to h» sce-ii whether Sift, Joseph Ward wH accept tlin policy s s ..thOT.giiti|tt.B.y pvovi/lecl for him for hfs sMborcfiftate. Th". Chvistcluweh ATiti-Ref-Dmi jowrnal $sßi»s to have ta-Vli. it quite s«rionsb\ Perhaps, howftver, Sir : 4osefu Ward >vffl prefer tft g<> oiio better, and pr6ckim.- , %c rtilloflniiim as tli" first plank in hh poiiey. U would bo. .more imnressiye-, and quiM ■ as amusing as the ftiem.her jfor Avon's transparent effort ah '■