THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81873, 24 October 1906, Page 3

THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

MR G. 11. ROD'S MANIFESTO. Received 241b, 1.7 a.m. Sydney, October 23. Mr G. H. Held delivered lirs election manifesto to a meeting of the Democratic party. One of the chief grounds 01 iiis appeal to the count!v was he wanted the supremacy of the secret caucus destroyed. The people should not help the caucus by voting for Mr Deakiu. who was willing; to do the work of caucus. He declared ; n favour uf fiscal peace, perpetual extension of the liraddon clause, national old age pensions, land value taxation, and compulsory conciliation. He opposed preference to unionists. Ho was not opposed to a pron'r system of bounties. He declared immigration to be one of the greatest National needs, subject to precautions against strike labor. He favoured the repeal of all legislation against White (sic) labour without sacrificing the vital principle of racial integritx-. We should develop the friendliest relationships with all nations. If the people of Britain were favourable to a preferential agreement, he would meet them by an equitable agreemnt, and would support unconditional pjcference offered by Australia to Britain. He defined Socialism as industrial despotism.