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ease, sanction every extravagance, conr done every offence, hush up every intrigue, wink at every injustice, and sup the favours that fall their way from a robbed and depleted Treasury 11. That a weak and incompetent "party" in our Parliament has, in the sacred name of Liberalism, watched in silent simplicity a lawless Admini&trar taon demoralise our Civil Service bv placing personal and political favour above merit, making its members emulate each other m the power to crawl instead of in, the power to work and serve the State , rob the country of a safeguard in its Audit, enabling members to raise their own salaries , to squander money extorted from the pockets of the poor on military pomp and eaudy show, while the cost of living: and the hardship of the worker grow apace starve our educational institutions (the last hope of the democracy). to lavish favours on military equipment largely obsolete and useless, and surrender to the Imperial Government the right to raise and keep a standing army in our midst for the purposes of foreign warfare. 12. That the only remedy for these evils, consistent with a Liberal and progressive policy is to send men to Parliament with a high sense of political honour and a stiff back -bone, owing allegiance to no man, no Government, no party, save only to their political principles and to the constituents they represent. 13. That the colony has quite outlived the necessity of sending abroad for men to fill our highest positions, and largely outlived the need foi importing manufactured articles 14. That the prevailing tendency to select men outside New Zealand for important posts is not only a gross iniustice to our own men and our own institutions, but is utterly futile as an attempt to attract the best men from other countries, or even to fill our highest posts to the best advantage Our voun^ men are being exiled from their homes because^ our high offices aie closed to them. 15. That the legislative policy of the Liberal Administration has in the naist been so just to all so lofty in its aspirations, so effective 1 in its incidence that with a following of firm and honest men backed by a determined and well-exnressed public opinion it ma" with an infusion of some of the new