MR LABOUCHERE'S MESSAGE OF "PEACE AND GOODWILL."

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1824, 15 March 1884, Page 4

MR LABOUCHERE'S MESSAGE OF "PEACE AND GOODWILL."

Hkrt? ia the glad evangel with whiih Mr Laboiichere, M.P., in his new capacity of Herald Angel, greets the readers of Truth :—": — " Christinas," he says, "is reirarderl as the most genial season of the year. Let us, therefore, celebrate it by remember ing the Radical programme It is a message of peace and goodwill to many millions of toiling and suffering human beings : " Pilectoi'til Reform. — In the ensuing session the Radicals will accept all that they can get as an instalment. Wo shall not rost satisfied until we have manhood suffrage, electoral districts and payment ot members. The Throne. —We think that the Crown and the Crown's family oost too much. Wo are not prepared to expend more than £."50,000 per annum as a maximum upon Royalty. The House of Lords —We propose to abolish tlie House of Lords. Ireland. — We are not prepared to assent to a separation. But we admit the right of Ireland to be her own mistress in everything which locally regards her. County C4overnment.— In every county there must be an Assembly, elected by all pei sons residing within its limits, and w ho havp a vote for the election of members to the Imperial Parliament. The unpaid magistracy will be relieved of their functions. Our object will be to transfer all local government from the landowners to the people. Land. — We shall legislate to reduce the landlords to the position of ground-land-lords. The occupiers of agiicultural land will have fixity of tenme, at a fair eromid-rite. Either they or the State will benefit by the unearned increment. The occupier, on the other hand, will be required to provide cottages with an acre or two attached to them, for those whom he employs. No entail, nor settlement of estates, will be allowed. A landowner, who does not cultivate, or c.iuse to be cultivated, any portion of his estate, will lose his riffht to that portion. Our aim will be to break up and destroy all great territorial domains. In cities we shall allow every person who pleases to buy the freehold of his house of the landlord at its actual, and not at its prospective, value, and we shall throw the burden of local taxation mainly on those persons who own property which they do not occupy. The Established Church.— This will be disestablished and disendowed. All living incumbents will be permitted to retain their incumbencies during their lifetime. When they die they will have no successor. The nation wi'l re-enter into its property, and will probably devote the income derived from it to educational purposes. Education. — We shall not only have free niimary, but free secondary and technical schools. Expenditure. — Our national expenditure mii/lit be red need by at least twenty millions. At the same time, we should freely make use of the ability of the State to procure monny at low interest. We should borrow this money and expend it in vemuneiative woiks, and in those calculated to benefit trade and commerce, and to better the position of the pooler classes. Taxation. — All indirect taxes would be abolished We should levy a small polltax on all able-bodied adults— «ay Id per week. With the exception of this ta\-, taxation would only commence where the requirements to live in decent comfort end. The cost of government would, in the main, bo met by a progressive income tax* and a progressive legacy dirt)'. An important distinction would, however, be made between incomes derived from the piofitsof trade, or the exercise of a profession and those accruing from the formpr. Personally, I think that it would be desirable to prevent hereditary accumulations by forbidding any one to leave more than a specified sum to any one individual. 1 am not, howe\er, ceirain whether all Radicals aie lipe for this lcstriction. There is nothing (Mr. Labouchere remarks in conclusion), so far as I can perceive, communistic or socialistic in these reforms. We have lagged terribly behind the spirit of modern democracy, and we have much leeway to make up.

Sell the old lien? soon if possible, they aro not worfh keeping through the winter and in the autiunti they will be .almost unsaleable. After removing the harness, bathe the shoulders of working horses plentifully with saltwater. It is both a preventive and a remedy for this trouble. The Mnculla natives, in Lower Guinea, at St. Paul de Loanrlo, south of the Congo river, have risen against the whites, necessitating the landing of Portuguese and English marines. Dilatory host' li ties continue at Madagascar. At Tamafcave, on the Kist Coast, the French have been reoonnoiteriug, but the Malagassies have lesisbed them effectually. The Ameiican man-of-war Pensacola and the British man-of-war Tourmaline are both at Madagascar. Do not let your chicken coops stand exposed to the weather until you want them again next year. Brush them thoroughly inside and out, and paint or whitewash them according as they are made of plained or unplaned timber. If you are going to need more next season make them at odd times through the winter. Spkakim; of the death of the late Mr George Payne, a noted bon vivant, and friend of the Prince of Wales, the Court Journal says : By the death of Mr George Payne, and by that of the Rev. Jack Russell, the Prince of Wales has lost two of his most esteemed fiipnds and companions. Indeed, so highly did he regard Mr Payne that he has been heard to say that he "never felt pleasure until he knew Payne ! "' Spain signed a commercial treaty with the United States on the 13th Feb., which takes effect on the Ist March, excepting one clause (abolishing Consular duties) which is held over until the Cortes meets. While this is mutually satisfactory, we note witli 1 egret that the internal condition of the country presents. featuresgiave of discontent with signs of revolution. Canavns del Castillo is provoking the Liberal party by the imprisonment of editors for articli s criticising the adminis* tion and other acts of tyranny. Tommy Verger, a progressive Austin boy, some fifteen yeai s of age, much to the disgust of his mother, has acquit ed the habit of reading sensational story papers of the dime novel style of literature. Yesterday she took possession of one of his papers, and examined it carefully. When Tommy came home she rebuked him severely. "That is not a fit paper for you to read. There is a story in it about a trapper and an Indian maiden that is not decent. Such stories are calculated to harm you." " No, ma. that story won't do me any harm." " But 1 say it will." But, ma, I reckon I know Avhat lam talking about. This story can't hurt me, for I wrote it my self. lam a regular contributor." One Shilling.— Francis «T. Shortts' Popular Art Union. — Ten first-class Oil Paintings by celebrated artist*. 5000 tickets at I*. The prizes are magnificent and costly. Country subscribers sending stamps or otherwise will have tickets by return post. Enclose stamped envelope for reply. — Fkancis J. Shoutt, 140, Queen-ftreet, Auckland. — [Advt.] Rats and Mice. — If you wish to destroy them get a packet of Hill's Magic Vkrmix Karri* in packets, Od. Od, and Is, to be obtained of all storekeepers, or from T. B. Hill by enclosing an extia stamp. Life in tiik Bush— Tjien> and Now. — It is generally supposed that in the bush we have to put up with many discomforts and privations in the shape of food. Formerly it was so, but now, thanks to .T. B. Hill, who' has himself dwelt in the bush, if food docs consist chiefly of tinned moats his Colonial Sauci? gives to them a. most delectable flavour, making them as well of the plainest food most enjriyable,' arid instead as hard biscuits and .indigestible damper his'lsr-' riioy*£ Colonial Baking .Powder makes the very best/bread, scones, cakes, and pastry far superior und more wholesome than yeast or caven, jSold J)Jj. pli, sfpiskeeiwriMwho cap ob« <