The Feilding Star. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22, 1893. AN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE,

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 123, 22 November 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 22, 1893. AN OPPOSITION CANDIDATE,

♦ Mr Harkness, an Opposition candidate, speaking at Masterton in the Wairarapa, put the peculiar .legislation of the Government in a somewhat new ligbt. He said that under the present state of affairs the people in the colony would soon be required all to go to bed at the same time, and to rise at the same moment, He had no belief in the socialism which was spreading over the colony, and which maintained that every man must be spoon fed by the State from his cradle to his grave. The Government had hoodwinked tho people, and had boasted of a prosperity which did not exist. The actual fact being that trade throughout tho colony was depressed, money was difficult to get, and interest higher than it had been before. We ask our readers to note this, especially farmers who have to pay the high rates of interest, and business men who fiud it almost impossible to collect their accounts owing to the scarcity of money, both occasioned by the extravagance of the administration of the party now in power. It is possible to deny these facts, but it is impossible to disprove them. When tho Atkinson Government went into office the exports were £6,000,000 per annum, and when they went out they were £10,000,000. Tho present Government took office with the exports at the last named amount, and there had been a gradual decrease over since year by year. Mr Harkness remarked that it was a strange thing, but true, that this falling off always occurred undor a so-callod Liberal Government. There were more unemployed in New Zealand now than there were three years ago, when work was more plentiful, and men could live cheaper then than now. The unemployed in the other colonies had been invited by the Government to come over and enter into competition with the honest struggling laborer of New Zealand. Now thero were hundreds of honest, hard working men who could not, in consequence of this, get anything to do. These stern facts should be remembered at the election here on Tuesday next, and the Opposition candidate, who is pledged to do his utmost to remove tho crushing load of taxation which is now borne by tho people of this colony, bo put triumphantly at the head of tho poll.