MR HOGG'S LAMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1478, 12 June 1905, Page 2

MR HOGG'S LAMENT.

GOVERNMENT TOO CONSIDERATE OF OPPONENTS.

Wellington, Saturday.

; i rphe Govsrnment wants more backbone” was the contention of Mr A.W. Hogg, M.H.R., for Masterton, one of the Government Whips, in the course of an address at a Liberal and Labor function. The speaker was dissatisfied with the attitudo of his chiefs on the land question, and he appealed to his political leaders to stiffen their back 3. ' 11 We are,” he said, “on .the eye of a great battle. I’m not frightened of the battle for a moment. (Applauso, and cry I 0 f l Togo.’) Some of ns may have to suffer martyrdom, but I admire the man who can laugh at thoso who try to make a martyr of him. It is for our leaders to be fearless. I trust that our leaders will be quite prepared to go down if necessary, for a time, knowing that in the long run right must triumph.” i The colony has two coal miQO3, stated Mr Hogg a little late* DD : 11 * oufc how mc eh coal has-the Government distributed in the city of Wellington? The Government wanfa to be stimulated, it want. 3 more backbone, more going $q have in the future the achievements we have had in the past. •* 1 want you to stand behind, me, said the speaker to his audience, “ in making the Government do its duty with regard to the coal mines.”