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Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1925, Page 2

H KI-'KK It'NU to till- "•l ><•*•( 1 1 111 Mr ll"l lillltl 111 Chlistcllllivh. "11i1 ' 11 "ll' "" -.imilar lines li> tli.’it delivered ;it Hokitika mi Saturday night. 11 io "Lyttelton Tiims" twits llic Leader uT tl»‘ I’arliameiitary I.iilmm- I'ariv with attemptilia tn masquerade in harrowed pinnies. After referring to the claim t" folio" tiio policy ot Itn lln nee-Scddon Mini.--tries, anil vet reinne at the antieipatcil (ii'iiii'i- of the Liberal Party, the paper proceed' : "Instead of rejoicing liecause lie thinks Liberalism is moriImml. Mr Holland should lie weeping hitter, sealding tears Tit-cause the party whose iniluenee. on his oiiii showing. is so necessary to the well-being ul the eountrv. is shortly to he no more. I.ihcralism. ol course, is not in any dan-

ger. It "ill survive a> an active, health-giving infltienee in the State lone after Mr Holland is dead. The extent to which it. has; to he reckoned with may he paused by the I act that Mr Holland has to borrow the Liberal cloak he fore lie considers himself decently arrayed to face the elector-, [hit what is there under the cloak ? YMe

socialisation of the means ol production. distribution and exchange—is it there? Aid and smypathy for Com-munist-engineered attacks upon tl.v Empire—is that there 'i Admiration for the ruthless and unscrupulous men who have given tyrant-ridden Russia new and more merciless musters? Mr Holland "ill not let us see. lie says the |>eoplo of Now Zealand have a choice between the Toryism of the lieform Party, and the democracy of the Labor Party, lmt what does he mean by democracy ? Ts it the democracy of the Soviet?’ The Labour leader could answer all those questions if lie chose, and he has sufficient command of English and of logic to make his meaning perfectly clear. Hut he docnot choose, and the reason for his refusal to discuss such subjects and for his masquerading in Liberal attire Isuffieiently obvious. The real aims and objective of his party and a disclosure of its exact relation to the Communist Partv would scare awav the electors.'*