Correspondence

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 381, 23 October 1908, Page 2

Correspondence

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THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

(TO TKX KDITOB.) j Sib,—The next election comes in i Novembet end with it anoibe* polili , cel Union, tbe New Zealand Formers' , Union, to oboose a member. So ' fur we have not bed an, chance to de- i cide wbo ie who, bat ell sacretarys of Union branches have received tall inetraotions as to tbe questions tbe, «>k the candidates—the answers will I decide tor or against. After the candi- I date takes hie seat bis doings will be | watched by the bead office of the Union in Wellington. II be is not faitblul his name will have a Mask mark drawn through it at next- slop- I t’on. These qoestions are secret until , the candidate has a meeting- Tbe question is often as ked, "wbat is a Con serv.tive?” The answer is this : A conservative is a man wbo, puts on the brake when be thinks progress is g >ing to land civilisation in tbe ditch and often be is so troubled with blue tank that be can't tell a field mouse tram a steer. Therefore he prophesies that the policy of all Liberal Govern ments will end disastrously to tbe country ; his brain power ie usually eo defieisrt that be can’t see one year ahead, and that if we do borrow oheap ui >ney to make roads, railways, bridges, etc., we are increasing tbe ex ports ot the 0 :untry and that every pound we tbua lay ont helps to setilo tbe country, give homes, work and a living io tbe settler and his camp followers who inhabit our small towns. Not only this, but money judiciously spent in public works greatly enriches the whole colony. A live Liberal strives to improve the environment of our people by the creation of better and healthier places ol recreation, by tbe establishment of better and more socialised public comforts and convent ences ; by tbe more scientific and hamsne treatment ot our delinquent classes iu. our penal -iasutptiona ; by setting ah efficient example of self government and home rale ; and last and moat important of ,>U, by promotind tbe restoration of in dividual opportunity and bops to I,M submerged classes of our cities and establishing a condition of equal legal right with no legal priviliges to all onr inhabitants. We mast admit that lair priviUges to belong to those who can pay for them. We want legal advisers for tbe poor, and available for all desses alike, thus making our laws equally just for all classes, which at present are not. This is tbe policy, or al least adittle of tbe policy of a Liberal. His wish is tb help ail classes; bin whole attitude is Liberal —in fact he is a kind-hearted good 1 luck Co-all optimist, looking always for tbe good and finding ilk Now a Conservative candidate ie always dead on top, is invariably s pessimist, prophesying evil io come and seeing only bad results, where the Liberal minded sees and eventually finds the best results. It we intend to advance by leaps and bounds, let us, farmers and all, unite to return it liberal, broad minded optimist, end leave tbe out-of date narrow-minded Conservative to bis pessimistic dogmas, as ire can gain nothing by a retrograde step which returning a Conservative would be. It is essential to the futuire prosperity of these parts that a special loan be raised to give us roads and railways. If we borrow money through onr local bodies we have to pay tbe interest, but ill we get a spe cial loan for the back blocks the Dominion pays the interest. It ia the wish of the present Government that snob a loan be raised so let us increase tbe value of our holdings by voting tor tbe present Government mid thus helping them to do us we want. Under the old Conservative methods of pub lie works we would mostly be very old or dead before our roads were made, and if a blue-funk Conservative Government were elected, the brake would ba put on our public works, which would stop and a time ot stagnation, hunger and want io oar ermji ol public works employees resalt. We must be just to all and before we cease our public works by oeasiog 'to borrow, the revenue of tbe Dominion, Which yearly increases enormously, must bo large enough fto keep going, - In time our most pressing public ‘ works will be completed, tbe oxpendi--1 tore will coneeqaenUy baoome lees our 1 revenue greater, and when all the vast productive areas of thia Dominion '■ are roadsd and settled out public wealtb a ill be oorrespondinly mack greater. Stick io Liberalism, it will see only optimistic success where Con - ! seryatism sees mole hills as mono--1 tains.—Yours, etc., • LIBERAL.