FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16701, 9 December 1919, Page 7

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

POLLING NEXT SATURDAY. (Bt C»M»—Pr<*« ■' «■ V (Australian and KZ. Cablo As»oc»tian.) (Received Dch ir.Lcr Bth, 7.-0p.m.l iSYDXEY, December 8. It "would be difficult to elaborate tho; i.-sucs really to dccidcd by the clcc- ; lor 3at next Saturday's poll. Both paxtics claim as their main plank measures against profiteering and financial r® - adjustment. Since tho Labcur Party's policy WW cabled on November oth, the atmosphero has boc~mc clouded by many si issues of Husbcsism and Ryaniarn. Mr \V. A. Watt, tho loderal Treasurer, as spokesman for tho National.st I'nrtv, de-hncs tho position as follows. Whether we smash up the States and havo unification; whether we authorise the experiment of universal Socialism, whether the country is to bo micd I>J law or by d':re-t n-fon : whether wonn; to have a career of financial debnocnery and insolvency; wlte'livr we aro to ovt,, |" throw compulsory military training ana decln.ro Australia defenceless and <^ e e n ! to anv predatory nation; whether l*ol- , shevism sliall stalk through Australia; , and whether wo shall weaken and de- ! stroy our Etr.oire partnership." i Tho Labourites scornfully repudiate! Mr Watt's assumption that their success at tho polls would lend to the fulfilment of liis comprehensive jeremiad. ,