THE GREAT LIBERAL PARTY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2999, 3 October 1891, Page 2

THE GREAT LIBERAL PARTY.

TO THK EDITOR, Sir,—Perhaps yun will allow me to express in the column? of your journal that I think you have not displayed, to say the least, prnnd taste in adversely attacking, in your suit-leader, an advertisement put in by tha Great Liberal Party, of which I have the honour to ba a humble member. If wo had used your journal free to advocate the course we intended to pursue, then, I am open to confess, that the course you have taken would have been justifiable. However, I am not at all sorry you have taken this course, because it will show your readers that you are not carrying out your motto : " Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatsoever state or persuasion, religious or political." lam glad to learn that the greatest fault that can be found with the chief exponent of the Great Liberal Party is that he has decided to vote for the Hybrid. I may say there are many things on which Mr Murray and myself are quite agreed. We only diverge on the great and momentous questions that are occupying the minds of many of the great and most learned men ill the Christian world ; questions that cannot bo put on one side or their progress stayed. Even the wealth, with its mighty influence, is quite powerless to prevent the rise and spread of socialistic opinions. Mr Murray is in favour of keeping our primary system of education intact. This cannot bo said of the Hon. >ltii llryc: or Mr Like, are in favour of its being cut olf at the fourth standard, but would not touch the universities and high schools. Surely men that would do I his cannot ba the friends of the settlers and working men. I wish to point out that since the national system of education came into operation ill Ku<.'land half the jails have Usen chnxsl iu Manchester (vide New Zealand Herald). Now, is it not cheaper and infinitely hot.tor to make our children into good scholars and citizens rather than bad criminals. The present Government and its supporters are denounced by the Opposition Press for their socialistic tendencies. Now, I would like to ask those who are crying out so blatantly against them, what is their crime? Are they endeavouring to make the rich still richer? Are they favouring the large landed magnates and rich syndicates? Are they devising schemes for grabbing the lands of this colony for themselves or their friend*? Ttie greatest crime I can find they are guilty of is iu trying to break up the large and evergrowing estates and thereby to prevent the lands from being swallowed up by tha favoured tew, and so preventing the inevitable result of the people from becoming : serfs and slaves. If this Government had been working for the rich and the large landed proprietors, the enormity of raising their own honorarium would never have been mentioned by the Opposition Press. The present Government cannot do anything right. Why if Major Atkinson died or resigned his post, and Mr Ballance &lected linn-elf to the speakership of the Upper House at £000 per year for iife and several of his henchmen to snug and comfortable seats in the same chamber, me thinks the Opposition Press would howl with furious indignation. For my part I am always pleased when I see the howling leading articles in the Pre*s agaiust the Government, fo? then I know the privileged classes are vigorously assailed. In conclusion, I wish to say that one of Mr Lake's best supporters said to me that he was honest enough to admit that ho would he better off under the present Government than the late one. lam not at liberty to publish his name, but I have given it to the editor.—Yours truly, John Park.