THE LIBERAL PARTY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2069, 8 July 1890, Page 3

THE LIBERAL PARTY.

The Wellington Evening Press commenting on tho disarray of the Ministry ani tlie of the fatnr*, says : There will not be again attempted tbe mad alliance between Conservatism and Liberalism which was effected by the Stout-Vogel Administration, That alliance ended in discrediting and damaging of one of tho most able of the Lib ral leaders of this Colony. It led bim into inconsistencies which were intolerable to the country and fatal to his reputation. tie has suffered terribly from his ex- j porience, and will not again repeat it. Ihe Colony is now prepared to give i's confidence to a real Liberal party, to a party which shall have the courage that has animated in past days the great Liberal party of England ; the party that through half a century made its bis oiy the history of one triumphant progress in the advance of liberty, the cause oi education, in the development of enterprise, and in freedom of labor, The party that found England in tha depths of deßpair, of poverty, and of commercial ruin, with disordered finance* and a corrupt Parliament ; which after fifty years of hardiy interrupted power, left it the richest, the most prosperous, the most powerful of all European countries, with a system of finance which is the admiration of tbe world, and a purity of administration which has no rqual in history. We say that New Zealand has men who can do this for her, but these men must unite for tbe service of the Colony. Sir Kobert Stout's known generosity of character and great ability point to him as the leader ; and if Sir Robert tbioks himself justified in sacrificing his private interests to do this work, and will courageously discard the unhappy economic fallacies into which he was led by bis fatal partnership with Sir Jalius Vogel, a Liberal Administration may be formed which shall be worthy of so great and honored a name ; and he will gather to him all the forces of that great public opinion in this colony whioh so parnestly longs for reform of abuses, for purity of administration, for financial stabi'ity, for fearless progress, for a p»eady advance of the welfare, material and social, of the working an.d middle claßses of the colony j and, aboye all, wise administration Q f the Crowq and Native lands of the oolony in. the pub'ic interests and in the pqhlip interests only, On this bead Mr Ballance undoubtedly possesses tbe confidence of the people. We repeat that it is possible now to form an honest aud powerfal Liberal Party. Ihe ccjony \s prepared for it. and if §|r Robert Stout will undertake the task it will be done, That party will be the foundation of a National Liberal and Patriotic Party in New Zealand,"