SHAM LIBERALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2671, 15 August 1887, Page 2

SHAM LIBERALS.

The Waipawa Mail has the following in reference to Liberals and Tories on the wages question :—" Let us for a moment glance at the condoot of some of the meu in relation to their employees who call thoinselvos Liberals. Wo have in. Mr'. Joseph Ivess, the Government candidate ■ .'.: for Napiov, a man who professes to bo a ■'"". Liberal. What is Mr Ivess's record with '; re/ard to his treatment of working men'/ Ho not only cut down tho wages of his own hands in the South, but m tho. #-.. means of lowering the' rato of wages Jj£f throughout tho whole of Canterbury, and iuniany other parts of the colony. Confcrast this 'Liboral' conduot of Mr Ivess . w'ith'tho.maimer, in which the employers. who are called Conservatives treat their men, and we feel bound to say that ovory; wojkjug man. will acknowledge tho Jotter'"■•.' to bo their friends aud the former their' worst enemiea. It is a well-known fad- . that in many parts of the 8out& Island those printers who work .on- tipp,. so-called Liberal papers are tho : worst'-'" paid of any in the trade, but we need not . 00 to the South Island for proof, we have . it iu Napier. Wo know of two or three' cases on thepapor of which tho Henry Williams'and Mr W. 0. Smith.": are proprietors whore men with families ' - have had their wages reducod to a point . which makes it very hard indeed, fojir them to maintain their, wives and childrecV' This is no trumped-up tale: it is a fact that we are inn position to prove, and ; when men like Messrs Ivess, W. C. '• Smith pad H. Williams pose as 'true Liberals' aud as tho' friends of tho working man,' it is only fair and right that their real position should bo ; placed before tho public. Behind the' grand old name of Liberal' there are skulking at this moment the onomies •. of law and order, the oppressors of the poor, tho party of longnours and small '. pay, and working men in some cases Jare.' l . allowing these creatures to entrap them :: • and to lead thorn to their ruin. Electors,•' be warned in time I Consider well what • the result of sho triumph of this selfish crew will mean to yoir.'and yours, aud. support only those'.who: haye proved through long years of residence in country that they are,the t?iipan.dfl£ earnest friends of the busy toilers';"