Liberal or Conservative.

Manawatu Herald, 17 November 1896, Page 2

Liberal or Conservative.

-«~ Upon the niuch-abuaad terms Liberal and Conservative Ifr H. F. Roece, a candidate for the Ashley seat, makes some very portioent comments:— "lf to be a Liberal," says Mr Bseoe, " was to make it one of his first acts to doable his honorarium, to give himself all the fat billets obtainable, to oreate well-paid situation* for hia relations and friends, to spend enormous sum.B of the ratepayers' money, to wring the country, to tell the people that this was the finest Government that ever existed, to do his utmost to estrange capital and labour— then he was not a Liberal. If to be a Conservative was to desire to see tke honorarium reduced to a reasonable mm, so that a poor man oould still be a representative without its costing him anything, but not enough to encourage any strolling bagman to secure a term of independence ; to desire to see tut country managed on sound business principles, by mm with at least enough interest %er« to make it of importance to them whether we rose or fell ; to me every posiible endeavour to bring capital and labour together ; to retort confidence between the classes and bh* master, which was now absent, apd without which no oountry could prosper ; a wish to set Now Zealand sensibly governed, and not, ai at present, made the laughing stock of tht world, as the place where they tnd all sorts of faddish and socialistic legislation exploded by other countries, or considered too danger? oui to try— if to wish these thing* was to be a Conservative, thea "hi* was one." The point of M r".Bee'ce'f ; remarks will no doubt be plain to our readers. — Pott.