FEDERAL FIGHT.
YES-NO REID ATTACKS THE GO. VERNMENT.
By Telegraph—Press Association Copyrlgh Sydney, Aug. 18.
Mr Reid, speaking at Bowral, in the course of a slashing attack on the Government, said that if one thing more than another marked the Barton Government, it was the subservient crawling way they had kept one eye on the Labor members. The line of honorable alliance between the two parties had been crossed and a lino of discreditable subserviency reached. “ I charge the Government with being a dishonorable tool in the hands of the Labor party,” ho said. Continuing, Mr Reid said he thoroughly favored a Whito Australia policy, bnt the Government, by their treatment of the subject of colored labor on mail steamers, had brought the policy into utter contempt. He did not wish his greatest enemy anything worse than the stokehold of a steamer in the Red Sea. He did not believe there was a working man in Australia who wanted to go into the stokehole of one of these steamers. Regarding preferential trade, he said: >< We can safely trust the British people to do what is right by Mr Chamberlain’s soheme.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 972, 19 August 1903, Page 4
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