FEDERAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 372, 25 April 1910, Page 5

FEDERAL POLITICS.

LABOR GATHERS STRONGLY,

MR. FISHER'S DECLARATIONS.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.

Sydney, April 23. A great Labor rally was held at the Exhibition Hall. The appearance of Mr. Fisher and the three Labor Senators was the signal for tumultuous cheering. Mr. Fisher declared that had the people been consulted at the time the fusion was formed the fusion Government would never have existed. Had the late Government carried out its policy with regard to the financial agreement, it would have irustrated Australian progress. There was something greater than the return ot Labor members: that was, the rejection of the financial agreement. The La-' bor Government would proceed toi carry out land value taxation. . Such taxation was economically sound and right. They would proceed to adjust economic conditions, so that people who desired to draw wealth from natural resources might be afforded reasonable opportunities to do so, and to open avenues of employment to people living in other parts of the world: They would welcome people of European descent in any number, so soon as .economic conditions make it possmle lor them to obtain a livelihood. As regards defence, they would proceed to carry out their programme as announced for ten years past. If the people desired the co'/ntry to be protected they must pay, and the Government would ask them to provide the necessary money. Within a year there would be at least one Labor daily paper in Australia, and within three years there would -be six Labor, dailies in the Commonwealth.