WHAT IS A "LIBERAL?"

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 800, 25 April 1910, Page 6

WHAT IS A "LIBERAL?"

ME. T. E. TAILOB SAYS THAT NO ONE KNOWS. (By Teleeraijh.—Snecial OorreraondenU. Chrlstchurch, April 22. Mr. T. E. Taylor took occasion, in. opening a school fair at St." Albans yesterday, to touch on current politics, commencing with a condemnation of tha Government for having reduced the education estimates as the first step in , a policy of financial retrenchment. This action he termed a "first-class blunder." Mr. Taylor went on to say that the term "Liberal" had now oeased to haw any meaning in New' Zealand, and he defied any man who called himself a Liberal to tell him what the Liberal policy in this country . was '. to-day. It .was no good guessing at'what the' policy might bo, and the only indications of. it were given by, speeches by Ministers in remote towns at long intervals, or when the. Government brought down a such as the last, Land Bill, the provisions of which \fei©" so monstrous that almost every member m the House had to vote against it. Those who wanted an improved edn-. cationaL system," i who. wanted .their, children to ..have better opportunities in life, and an.assured hope of employ-, ment,. must, join in the m^Vinrr oJ a: real.live political party, the programme'■ of which would not bo concealed or , disclosed spasmodically, but published, broadcast so that everyone would know what were the intentions of ftose who' advocated it..