OUR PROSPERITY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4082, 6 April 1892, Page 2

OUR PROSPERITY.

. AJLJhoral Explain?. It Wt Wash. A meeting was lately held at Dandenong, Victoria, to establish a branch of the Progressive Political League, which was addressed by Mr F. Kitchen, a distinguished Liberal, late of Dunedin, He was allowed to proceed with occasional interruptions until lie reaphed tho one-man one-vote question, wlienthercwpstjujte an uproar. In the course of a socialistic harangue he declared the wealth of Atactica and the return of prosperity to New Zealand were to be attributed to the. equal elective rights system. The meeting marked its dissent from this in an unmistakeable manner, and Mr Kitchen had to desist. Mr Thomas Day rose and.'said he would not have spoken but for the misstatements mado about New Zealand, (Cheers,) It was drawing a,red herring across the trail to say that' New Zealand owed her return to prosperity to:tbe one-man-o'ne-v.ote system, (Loud obeers.j Tho probperity of New Zealand to-day was due to the vigorous ness of the climate, the rich resources of tho soil, and the enterprise', of her people. (Prolonged cheering,) Had tbey not established a splendid frozen meat trade? And were not the shipowners who bad made costly facilities for carrying the meat, in' the' bcsi ;, conditi6n to England entitled to some praise?- (Cheers.) Just now; wo in.this country were suffering from depression, one of the causes of which was the disastrous strike, mid while there weresome things in the programme which were well enough, it must be remembered that the men who were at the head of the movement and those who were behind it }e.d tho workers of this country into j one of the most 'djsafitrotifl strikes j known in the" history of th/j cojony. (ProlpngeMeers.) V/hen MrJQayj sat down Mr-gtoJwß. attempted., .to. j refute hla statements,- but ps met with boo-boos and groans, and: before (lie motion "that it is necessary to establish a branch'' of : the Political Progr.essiye League in the district" was put the agitators left by the back door and proceeded in iho direction of the railway.station, and' the meeting terminated,' .