"LIBERAL" VIGOUR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10481, 18 November 1911, Page 4

"LIBERAL" VIGOUR.

Mr J. Viigor Brown, the Government candidate ftxr the Napier seat, is evidently alarmed at the prospect of a coalition, between the Labour and Oppositdon- lorces in the hub : of Hawike's Day. In a speech ,wihiah, lie delivered at Port Ah/uriri on Thiuinsday nigfhlt he unearthed ai oirauffar wMcih hjadi .been issued prior t>o 1891, in wtocth (the then Government offered 4s 6d .per day to married men on relief work®. He (proceeded to argue, with, a stow of much virtue, that the Libera]) Government hiaid maintained tihe standard of wage&. This is a very specious appeal to the working classes, hut it is altogether too thin.. The wwkers know; as as Mr "Vigorous" Brown ean/j teJd tliemi, that the conditions' pre- ! vailing' in 1891 were wearied. largely by the extravagance of a Liberal Government. The-y know alsb .that the condition/ of the unemployed man to-day is* infinitely nwse ttoam it wla« twenty years ago, for the reason that foodstuffs and house-ren/t •are so miueh dearer. They know .that, in spite of all the bounce and malcewbelieve of (place-seeking politician®, the married man is in a 'Worse plight to-day, -thani when lie was' offered 6d per day on, relief works. T'liey know aili these thingts to itlhieir sorrow', and are not likely to be caught toy irrelevances as tliose-served up by the konrbastiic member for Napier.