LABOR SEVERELY TROUNCED.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1919, Page 5

LABOR SEVERELY TROUNCED.

, m m ■ MR. ISITT ON PARTIE&

(By Wire—Own Correspondent)''" Wellington, Last Nlghli One member of the liberal Partjl took very detnite exospGbn to thsf statement of Mr Downie Stewart itf the) House to-day to the effeet that the flght? between the parties is nothing tnoMr than a Bhain aght. Mr Isitt denieff this statement with the Utmost ligDq in the House when he was speaking on the financial debate. This afternoon he declared that he had very definite; reasons for his opposition to the Be« form Party, and he mentioned' half £ score of members of that paxtymtii whom he had not a thought or Idee] in common, mentioning the names with* out offeice, He was ready to agree* he sajd, that Mr Downie Stewart would have but little quarrel tkh the IBm tral Party, for the reason that he was one of the most radical members £? the present Parliament. All that waaj wrung with him from the point of vtewi of the Liberal Party va* that he had hearkened to the cry: "SVom Masseye don'a." In brief, he would be Terw welcome on the other side of the) Hmiße. Mr Isitt went onto state that' the teaching that there were no differences between the present parties of, Reform and Liberalism was It was the very teaching that the Labor people had been trying to inculcate for; several years, notably since the formal tion of the National Government TM aim of Labor was to make it appeal that there were only two parties in the* country—the Labor Party, and that Massey Party, and the purpose of the cry was to force the people dissatisfied l with the Reform Party into the arms ot extreme Lalbor. By this device the Labor people had hopes of getting into' power, but Mr Isitt confessed that hj« would very much rather see this conntry controlled Iby "my friend,' Mr Maai sey" than to see it 'landed orer to toe tender mercies of the member for Grey." Then Mr Isitt went on to-tell some of the reasons why he was Mud* ous that the extreme Labor people* should never control the destinies oj, this country. The things he said hare;' all been said before, but Mr Isitt etidj them with rather more than his on>> ternary poistedness and vigor, and! he; gave the Labor members a most iuv tistic trouncing. The Labor msmbeHf Were very angry, interrupted and generally behaved in such a trajj that the Speaker had to warn tVflfrfllfc two occasions. V ,-- %