THE LIBERAL TRIO.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7725, 3 December 1890, Page 3

THE LIBERAL TRIO.

> k> thb boitob of thb pxuebs. Sib,-How is it possible for Messrs Taylor, Perceval and Beeves to have effect given to their absurd proposals I On the one side they say that they want to encourage capital to be brought into the country, on the other hand this political trio does everything it can to hound down everyone within the colony who has any capital, so that there is no encouragement for capital to be sent here, but rather the reverse, when such tactics are adopted by the Lyttelton Times aad the candidates whom it supports. The capitalist who resides within the colony, and the capitalist or absentee residing beyond the colony, have all to pay their proportional share of the property tax, and under it they know how much they are liable for"; but under the proposals of this political trio the immediate prospect of those having property is that they will lose it if Taylor, Perceval, Beeves, and others of the same clans are reearaed, so that the man with means to employ labor is not likely to come Here, and those who have capital employed here will want to withdraw, unless the welfare of the colony is more carefully considered than it has been of late by the Lyttelton 1 imes and its party. 1 further desire to say to the electors through you that in my opinion the LytteUon Times, with Mr Reeves at its head, are doing the colony a serious injury by the coarse pursued of trying to stir up animosity between employer and employee. Mr Reeves and his papers are never weary of both covertly and in express terms statiug that the employer is the enemy of the employee. No w I say that this w the moat vile political claptrap that have ever known put forward. I challenge Mr Beeves to show when the masters have been the enemies of the men. Mr Reeves knows, the working men know, and tb-', employers of labor know full well that there must*be mutual confidence between masters and men, otherwise they cannot succeed in their work. If we cannot, as Englishmen, go about our various industries with the greatest confidence in each other we .cannot succeed as colonists, aud I appeal to tha good sense of the working men to go hand in hand with their employers, with faith in each other, and do not be farther misled by Mr Reeves and his party.—Yours, &c,

A Liberal.