A FARMERS' PARTY.
The Auckland Executive of the Farmers' Union is determined to institute a political party of its own. It does not want either Government or Opposition, but farmer candidates pure and simple. It lias no concern about a man's views on Imeprial questions, or defence, or education, or anything of that sort. All it
wants is 3 "party of our own, pledged to no interests but those- of tlie agricultural and pastoral community." In other words, what it really wants is an annual meeting of delegates of the Farmers' Union, clothed with legislative powers. A pretty nice mess such a conclave of bucolics would make of things! Why does the farmer not cultivate a soul above the big turnip and the fatted calf? He talks of the aggression of the Trades Unionist, and yet he does everything in his power to stimulate that aggression.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 28 January 1911, Page 4
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146A FARMERS' PARTY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10150, 28 January 1911, Page 4
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