POLITICAL DISILLUSIONMENT.
Perth, February 5
The Hou. T. M. Fowler, who has been Labour Member for Perth in the Federal House of Representatives for nine years, states that while he is still staunch to the principles on which he had been elected, Parliamentary life had disillusioned him.
The Labour Party of the first Federal Parliament was, said Mr Fowler, absolutely earnest on fighting principles, but things began to falter when office loomed on the horizon. The first Labour Ministry maintained a precarious existence by giving away planks of its platform, and since then the Labour leaders had one eye on the electors and the other on the Treasury benches. He went to his farm sick of political adventurers. ' ‘ 1
Mr Fowler, who is a Scotchman, was a pioneer on th« West Australian goldfields, antf spent several years mining afid prospecting, He was a of the Tariff Commission from 1905 to 1907. /
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 809, 8 February 1910, Page 2
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151POLITICAL DISILLUSIONMENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 809, 8 February 1910, Page 2
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