CONSERVATISM AND LIBERALISM.
Speaking at Pefcone the cither night,. Mr A. W. Masterton, stated that the farmer, when a confessed Liberal, was not hard to turn into a. Conservative. ' "As soon as he gets a little purse-proud, gets the river bridged, and has all -lie requires, he often « turns round and becomes a> hardened Conservative." Supposing he does, what harm? Miv Hogg is old enough in politics to know that the man who has something to conserve —bo it land, money, or business interests, —is by nature a conservative. The garden, or New Zealand variety of "Liberal" is one who has nothing to conserve, and who wishes to be liberal .with other people's money. The more he exploits the other fellow, the better "Liberal" he is. Is there any bonder that men beoome conservative in saicll circumstances?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 October 1913, Page 4
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137CONSERVATISM AND LIBERALISM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 October 1913, Page 4
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