THE NEED FOR A NEW POLITICAL PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 December 1909, Page 2

THE NEED FOR A NEW POLITICAL PARTY.

i Sir,—Tlio Prime- Ministers policy, oy ■ want of policy, has dissolved tho.Liberals , r Labour federation. It had only a narna to live, and ' all genuine: reformers aro 9 very glad'that it is dead. 'We havo now,, . f to fill: iip< tho vacancy ■ with an; effective lladicftT organisation, and tho FOonortm»: i i is done the bettor for the country. What . . is called "Liberalism" is an ' indefinite - tiling, and; tho humbug, associated with. 0 it lias been great. Under Liberalism tho f rich havo grown richer, and the poor >. g have become poorer jWtho men atld women.-, who', iwork : hardest . havo . tho, , most , r " wretched pittonco to livo on, while people ; o. who do, nothing; at all for their living: ' take the lbrgest share of Iho wealth pro- , a duced. This is manifestly -an. unnahiral F alid -extremely./unjust order of things,, I- Kvcrylionoot man must condemn it. "WJhat we want now is a greatjDemocratio .. , part}', balided.:together with the special.,, » object of -so changing our laws ; tliat . j. wealth shall automatically distribute, it- i : C self, with' something liko fairness amongst D its producers.Tho. ..necessary .changes. . . will ho: easy, when wo havo,.on organised , party strong enough for tho purpose. It -. ' is unnebessary tb'.;di6cuss measurcsiatjpr(f, ■ sent, - All- that is-,needed is ..to: bond - tiv l . '• gether, all who want .a just distributihV . of tho products'of labour; Let the earnipt,v. reformers in every city, town; and: villago , . . ib'cgin to do this at once. Thero need : | xitot bo any fuss about.it.. .'Thq ehrolmottt ~ 1 of members,. can go • 'on ijuietly, and' every...., j thing . begot :, inreadiness.; for "election : ; - i J day. Listening to the l'Hiiie Minister, ■ . I and rnbst other members of Parliament, J is 0 waste of time! .Have dono with them * and got to. bo rid of;thom.-r. i' I am, etc., - s EDWARD T. EVANS. '; ' Avon House, Napier, December, 27, 1009,