LIBERAL REVIVAL

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1927, Page 1

LIBERAL REVIVAL

AIR VEITCII’S TOUR. AY AN G A NUT, June G. Interviewed on his return irom a tour of Southland and Otago, Air AA’. A. Veiteh, ALP., organiser for the Liberal Party, said that he had had a most- encouraging experience. Good friendly meetings have been held in Southland. ITe would return to Dunedin to address a public meeting during a week end early in the coming session. An active central executive is at work in each of the provinces visited, making arrangements for the selection of delegates from each electorate to a conference and Liberal Rally at AVellington during the first week in August. Mr Veiteh will speak at Alarton next Thursday evening, and Eeilding on Friday.

In reply to a question, he said that tlie success of the Liberal revival is already assured. Branches are coming into action in all directions, indicating that the people are still Liberal in sentiment and anxious lor a change that will prevent a further violation of people's liberties and re-establish government by Parliament itself. ” Three important facts stand out in the present political situation, said Mr Veiteh. That Reform, by its irresponsible extravagance, its interference with individual liberty and its surrender of Parliament’s responsibilities to more or less irresponsible boards and Royal Commissions, has lost the confidence of the people and given grave offciu-e even to many who have hitherto supported that party; that the people are not prepared to change from the Reform Party’s bureaucratic methods of government to the Labour Party’s equally undemocratic caucus rule and the nationalisation of everything, and that in these conditions nothing is more nntuial than that the revival of Liberalism is being taken up with enthusiasm by many responsible men and women throughout the length an breadth of the land, for in Liberalism lies the only safe alternative and the only hope of re-establishing true British liberty on the democratic basis of government of tlie people by the people for the people.