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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 13, 19 July 1892, Page 2

It is a very singular thing that when the people who call themselves Liberals combine, and form associations under all sorts of attractive titles, the members, with groat self-complacency, designate themselves patriots, whose every thought and action are beyond suspicion, but when any body of men who do not accept with an abiding faith the creed of these Liberals, join together for self-protection and to counteract the natural evil coiisequences which would certainly follow by allowing the Liberals to have too much of their own way, they are held up by these said Liberals as " monopolists and land grabbers," who, as " social pests," ought to be exterminated from oft* the face of the earth, and their property equally divided among the Liberals. The " Great Liberal Party " do not believe that " what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander." In Hawkes Bay an effort is be/in" made to form branches of the National Association of New Zealand, and this has apparently excited the wildest alarm among the Liberals there. It is needless for us to recapitulate the objects this association, as they are widely known here, and the only difference is that in the Hawke's Bay programme the part referring to the " dual vote " has been left out. We imagine that there is prudence in this because ihe proposal has not proved acceptable to a majority of those whom it was intended to protect against the peripatotic voter. The mere fact of the Opposition combining in any way whatever is not accepted as a natural corollary of the combination of the persons who are pleased to call themselves Liberals, who have openly stated that tlmir's is a policy of "annexation and spoliation." No doubt the Liberals would like the Conservatives

to quietly or tamely submit to be trodden under foot by those who, from the mere accident of circumstances, and not from any intrinsic merit of their own, happen to have the reins of power in their hands. The association is not formed with the view of injuring anyone, but "to promote agricultural, mining, commercial, and manufacturing enterprise, by removing all necessary obstacles to their development."