MR CARRUTHERS ON FEDERATION.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8910, 2 September 1907, Page 2

MR CARRUTHERS ON FEDERATION.

Referendum Proposed. Press Association —Copyright;, SyintEV, September 2. Mr Carruthors states that if ho _is successful iu the elections ho Wil) take a referendum—firstly, whether tho country ia favourable to the Federal demands with respect to the capital site; secondly, whether It is favourable to au equivalent for ‘ cho ! • Bi-addon Clause being priovided; thirdly, whilther ■ the State”, shoufd accept tho Go‘in> men wealth as now, constituted and administered, or take measures tq secure a more liberal and just con-.-stitutiou. If tho answer to tho last question was “No” lie would take it at, a warrant to cociiro a more liberal constitution, and .when Sir W, Lyqe aud other political traitors know that they wero representatives of a more insignificant minority in New South Wales they would begin to climii down. Tho State had jpleuty of friends iu Queensland, Western Australia aud. Tasmania, qua i| U £ .f f let the trouble caused by ft ’few ‘fiiC-fi Who had captured power go ou they would ha.vO to Bonk ox revolution.