GOVERNMENT HELP.
At tJie cooiclaisaon of his address at Wanton on Tuesday night,. Sir Joseph. Ward, sart., waved his hand in triumph as. he dccilared twenty-fpur different ways in whiolii the Oove-rn-mneiKt was rendering '"help." Hb titopped sllioi-t, however, when- he J&aid he was luelpring to promote a policy that any man, Government or country, may be pixiud of. He sihlould havie gone, furtluer, and said ho was helping to build lip a tit'eci aristocracy in the Dominion. Helping to orusili out individuiality and enterprise. Helping to manufaotare a nation of political serfs. Hsiping to create an army of hangers-on to the Goveinvment coat-taiils. Helping to stifle every formi <a induisitry. Helping to create a Native aristocracy. HeJping to bribe the constituencies with their own money. Helping to produce- tlie worst form of class distinction. Helping, in Bhiort, to bring tlie system c'f contti-.tutiona-1 government into disrepute, and to matee the name of the democracy stink in the nostrils, of. lie people.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 4
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162GOVERNMENT HELP. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10473, 9 November 1911, Page 4
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