NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2995, 24 September 1891, Page 2

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND

Tub newly established National A-<soci,v tion of New Zealand lately constituted, and with its heid quarters in Auckland, has issued a circular letter sotting furth its platforms. Tho objects this association have in view are :— 1. To promote a National Sentiment as opnosi'd to sectional and ola-s interests. i i To promote agricultural, mining, cominir all unnecessary obstacles to their development. U. To promote the due registration of parliamentary electors, true representation in Parliament and the election of tho best men available. 4 to promote reforms economic, legislative and constitutional. 5. To promote sound political economy, and to oppose >i.iss legislation and all undue interference with individual rights and liberty. The association, as can be leathered from this platform, is intended as a distinctly political organisation, aud one of its first aims will be to foster the establishment of similar institutions throughout tho Colony to form into one solid bedy all those who have been alarmed ntthesoeialistie toudoncy of the present legislation; to .show the fallacy of the principle that labour and capital are antagonistic ; co protest against crude and hasty legislation, which generally paves the way for violent reactions heroafter ; to protest against uuduo interference with the rights and liberty of the subject ;to protest against experiments alfeeting the tenure ot laud by which confidence in the good faith of tho colony is shaken ; to return to Parliament good men and true, whose aim will not be individual g:rn but the welfare of the wholu community, and who will resolutely oppose all tampering with the public credit; to educatn public opinion in the right direction by disseminating literature, giving some reasons and argument for our beliefs ; to prove to the working man that his worst enemy is the agitator, who uses him only as a steeping stone to political power ; to lestore the prosperity now endangered by reckless lawmakers, who not only prevent capital coming to the country, but are rapidly driving it away ; to show the unfairness of laws so framad that the industrious are hampered and put on a par with the lazy ■jnd thriftless.