THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10491, 30 November 1911, Page 6

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

j'Lo The Editor.]

Sir, — Oai -many occasions Mr M'assey has (p\iiblic% stated that theiv was mat maidi fpoilitical difference between ftie and iSiir J. G. Ward. If that cis iso, why the present aTlmost death-struggle .between the two' apposing parties? There its a difference, and a great difference, and the difference lies wltlb. the salient power Ibehinld the Opposition— the • idle' weailthy. Has not the (present democratic Govea-nimeut put severaO : Aqts- nvpoar the Statute Book that have Miti ovsm lini * most cherished place—4he money hag ? Has not that awf uili Slip J- G. iWard fent out to the istruggJUimg settter inea!i% £12,000,000 iatJ a low. rate of interest, which lias been «• (most serious ilio.ss- to tdiem ? Then ftflneare i-st the graduated land and income tax, each of which hits' the I wealthy, ndbbbis of and ha© deprived them tif iihe opportunity, as in the past, of (tending to the struggling settilieirsi moneys, at crushing rates of interest. Yet Mr Massey asks tlife" struggling settlers and worker si of the Dominion to put the tof the idle rich onto power, so that they away have the oportunlifcy of again reaping a harvest j of the increment, not created by ; them, tout by the- steady industry of , the settler and' wage-earner's gemer'air j %,' and in, that Ee.s> the difference be- I tweeaithe two opposingparties.. WeM. do the wealthy know that the onward "march off democracy Sis steadily 'forming initoi line, and that no human, power can stay its onward coumsle.. "They, also know that in the. present contest lies their only and Bas=t (hope, and every device and' every effort that mbttiey and brains can produce is iniow being put into action. It dis- the increment of the industrious they are after. They have had' alkleady more than their share. Money, like intoxicants, has) a great power on; tlie toman mind. The more you have, the mone.it takes to satisfy.— I am, etc., JOHN MACKAY.