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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 243, 17 November 1914, Page 6

The member for Christchurch. North last evening in a burst of rhetoric which was singularly appropriate to a church schoolroom, worked himself into a fine frenzy over the economic wrongs of the masses. "If Igo back to the House,'' declared Mr Isitt, "it will be to fight Conservatism (the tyrannous foe yi the working classes, of course) more fiercely than ever, and to do my best to translate into the Statute Book of this country the ethics of the K Christian faith." (Applause.) These are fine words, and well deserving of the parenthetical plaudits. The last sonorous phrase of the is calculated to shake down all the defences of the political enemy. Here is a splendid ideal, a most.worthy ideal in these days when men speak of politics, as very mueh-of a business that soils the.hands. This declaration of faith embodies a determination to valorously fight and right existing wrongs, to discomfit the enemy in fair warring. But; alas! there are two Mr Isitts. The first would strive "to translate into the Statute Book of this country the ethics of the Christian faith." The second Mr Isitt was revealed to a questioner whose query I suggested a trafficking in certain leases. '' Can you tell us anything about the -Rotorua leases?" asked this one of last night's audience. The land (it is explained) was worth £IOOO per acre, and the Government (it is alleged) offered the freehold of it to the tenants at the original price, about 10/- or 20/- per acre. Here, for the candidate, was an opportunity to.act in accordance with his splendid precepts. But—"l can only say that the representative for the district is a Minister of the Crown,'' said the second Mr Isitt. "That is pretty significant.' ' "What a generous and charitable suggestion to follow on the challenging sentiment respecting the translation of the, etliics 'of the Christian faith!.