LIBERALISM.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3138, 19 July 1881, Page 2

LIBERALISM.

ITo the Editor of tho Daily Tble__a_h.] Sir, —In reply to "Antis"—l mean " Liberal"— whose letter appeared in your paper of yesterday, I may be permitted to state that the working of the Liberal Association has been carried out according to tbe pronounced views of the staunch members of the great Liberal party in Hawke's Bay, but not I must say according to the method indicated in " Liberal's " letter, viz., the retrograde views of one who I am forced to think a very likely enemy to the cause. Liberal V asks three questions :—lst. Why are we so dumb and quiet on political matters at the present time. I will answer this by saying that the Liberalism of the present age preaches and teaches quietness and peace to all parties, even though a general election is imminent, and more particularly when its members are strong and numerous they can afford to be merciful. No. 2 question asks us what calamity has befallen the affairs of the Association. In _/*' answer to this I can only say that the committee are working steadily and surely, and doing their best to carry out the great principles committed to their charge at a general meeting of the Association. Were they to go into the Btreets and on the hill tops and bellow forth their doings to the world, where

would be the necessity of a general meeting — perhaps for, as " Liberal" states, to render an account of their actions. In my opinion were they to do So the information would be auch a strain on the mind of ih'u anxious Liberal that he might not be able to sit in his iD-mired chair and cogitate on the best means obtainable to frustrate the - good work carried on by our great and widely spread organisation* The third question is of Such a friendly nature, and so notoriously a liberal query, that it must commend itself to all Liberals wallowing in the same groove as your correspondent. Never mind Mr ** Sham Liberal," the cash can and will be accounted for at the proper time, and not before, even at the suggestion of a Liberal who would like to sit on everything bordering on liberalism in this province. In conclusion I beg to direct the attention of " Liberal" to rule eleven of the general rules of the Association, which is herewith apperded, for by the expressions made use of I am of the opinion tbat " Liberal" had not the faintest idea of the rules when they were submitted for approval, or the principles on which they are founded. Rule eleven reads as follows:—Suspension of Members,—The committee shall have power to suspend any member or members whom they may deem are actiDg detrimental to the interests of the Association. Any member or members so suspended shall, however, have the right of appeal to a general meeting, and that a general meeting shall be called to hear such appeal, and that such general meeting shall have the power of expelling the member if they consider tbe charges proved.—l am, &c, A Member of the Committee. Napier, July 19, 1881.