THE LIBERAL PARTY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3382, 10 January 1920, Page 5

THE LIBERAL PARTY.

OPPORTUNITY IN OPPOSITION. ‘ During the course of an interview with a. Star reporter this morning, Ml- - Mcgallum, M.P. for Wairau, ‘said the Liberal Party looked most I-311.310, sophically upon the Present position, and referred us to the concluding Words of the Liberal manifesto issued on behalf of the party by its: Leader in August last. He had never swerved from his opinion formed at the time of the formetion of the National Government, that Sir Joseph Ward personally should never have joined the Government, but should ‘have retained his own independence and that of the mink‘ and ‘file of his party by remaining outside the Cabiet, and as~ s-isting it in exactly the sane my as the Liberal Party had done nu:-ing the recent short session.

! After four years of the "marriage of conveniencef’ which, as all the world lnow knows, was not the outcome of affection, it was quite impossible to ldisassociate the two leading parties’ aims and objects, and the result was a decided success for the «lomiuatiug party in the Coalition at the expense of the Liberal Party, Whilst aflci-ding ‘the extreme Labour party an advantlagé ‘they could not well help availing ithemselvess of. i “Three years,” said Mr Mccallum, §“may see a wonderful change, and that change will not operate in favour or extreme Labour or any other section that thinks it can fool all the people all the time.” He felt certain the majority of the Liberal opposition were just as anxious as the Reform Party to bury party bitterness, recriminations, and strife, and work together for the good of the country. Any continuation or the policy by which the rich were becoming richer and the poor poorer would be stoutly and persistently opposed and held up to ridicule, and the great bulk of the people who wanted a ‘ fair deal and public affairs dealt with i from a “judicial’-’ rather than a “class” standpoint would soon realise that for this they must look E‘) the Liberals and the carrying out of a Eibcral policy rather than to any body of extremists, no matter Whether they represented propertied right or labour. As far as he was concerned, personally he thought the people of New Zealand were governed as well as they deserved to be. That profiteering monopoly and exploitation was rife there could‘be no question, and the task of any Government honestly at? tempting to deal with these any many 1 other diflicultieg would be heavy in-j deed_ 4 It was needless for him to say he!‘ had no faith in any Go‘~;ernment———reconstructed or other Wisc——that Mrl Massey might control. The very most the people might expect during the next three years would accrue from the solid and united efforts of the Liberal Opposition banded together, not for party gain or the attainment of office emoluments or titles, but to force the Government with its .1 solid majority to act fairly and squ'arely,| and do the right thing by the massesl of the people of the country, who are 1 thrifty and ‘deserving, and only ask} for a fair opportunity tomake good in ‘ the race of life.