FINANCIAL OCTOPUS.
"EMPIRE IN CLUTCHES." IMPLEMENTING CHRISTIANITY. (By Telegraph. —Own Correspondent.) MASTERTON, this day. Mr. Ben Roberts, the Labour candidate for the Wairarapa seat, speaking at Greytown, maintained that the whole of the British Empire was in the clutches of a "financial octopus." They were at the parting of the ways and had to decide whether they would strike for British independence. They were on the threshold of one of the greatest industrial revolutions in the history of the world, and with it would come a mental revolution. "If the Labour party stood for politics alone I would not be in it," lie declared. "It is because it is out to implement Christianity that I am with it. There is only one principle that is right, and that is the welfare of human beings." . . , "We should go back to the principles ot' Christ and overthrow the moneychargers," said Mr. T. W. McDonald, the Democrat candidate, at his Greytown meeting.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 260, 2 November 1935, Page 13
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