THE LABOR RALLY.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1921, Page 7

THE LABOR RALLY.

(To the Editor.) Sir y —Last Sunday night, New Plymouth was treated to one of the Labor (or perhaps more correctly, Loafers’) Party’s pleasant Sunday evenings, so common in the larger centres, where the Labor agitators take the part of the influence for good and their opponnents—Reformers, Liberals and Moderate Laborites—take the part of the devil (except as they paint them they are ever so much worse.) Now, Sir, few if any of their statements were in accordance with facts and figures—those inconvenient troublesome things that the modern Labor agitator has to spend 'O much time in avoiding—but some singed more greatly than ■ hers. Mr. McCombs, who, by the *ay, was foremost in the opposition l ° the Marriage Amendment Act, and, I believe, also beaded the opposition to the extra totalisator permits, stated that the Reform Party and the Liberal Party represented the “privileged few,” and later Mr. Bartram, in endeavoring to hide their self-seeking cause behind a high sounding ideal, said that they desired, the greatest good for the greatest number. Now, Sir, taking last election’s figures, this “privileged x few” that Mr. McCombs alleges the Reform and Liberal Parties represent, numbered roughly 360,000 electors, and those who voted for Mr. McCombs’ party number only 150,000. Yet Mr. McCombs calls this 360,000 a “privil cd few,” and Mr. Bartram declares that in trying to forward the interests of the 150,000 against the interests of the 360,000 he is working for the greatest good for the greatest number. Some mathematicians! Eli, what? Still, Sir, it is only on a par with the rest of the stuff they dish up to the workers, and so long as some people are fools enough to believe it, I suppose they will continue -to thrive.—l am etc,, BYSTANDER. New Plymouth, April 12.