NEW POLITICAL PARTY

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1921, Page 4

NEW POLITICAL PARTY

MR T. K. SI DEV’S ATTITUDE. DUNEDIN, March JO • Mr T. K. Sidey, M.P., interviewed on the new party, pointed out that the aims and aspirations of the party, as far as they Had been expressed, joined with those of the Liberal Party, which, among other tilings, stood for the recognition of the human element in legislation, for helping the weak, for the extension of State functions wliereover necessary, to effectively control monopolies or to conserve natural resources for the prevention of kind aggregation. for the removal of extremes of wealth wherever it could he done without diminishing the incentive to produce, and for the accomplishment of its objects by constitutional means. The Liberal Party at present occupied a similar position between two ex Iremrs, and it was under the Li be nil Party that New Zealand had led the .vorld in progressive legislation, as mentioned by Mr Statham. It was an historical party, with great traditions, and il was to it that the workers owed their political emancipation in this country. Though the Liberal Party was reduced in numbers in the House, largely through the splitting of votes at ti e last elections, Liberal sentiment was still strong in the country, and it only awaited a suitable opporutnity in which to give itself adequate expression. The by-elections since the last general elections' showed that it was still a force in the country. “There is no room,” said Mr Sidey, “for two parties so nearly approximateing in their objects, and if the now party means business as lias been suggested, it and the Liberal Party must join forces in furtherance of their commoil