DEGRADING LABOUR'S CAUSE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1309, 12 December 1911, Page 6

DEGRADING LABOUR'S CAUSE.

A SPECIMEN OF MR. HjNDMARSH'S' METHODS. ABUSE AND PERSONALITIES. At .an open-air meeting in the Post Office Squa.ro yeatoi day, afternoon, Mr. A. H. Ilindmarsh, -Labour'.-.candidate;,for Wellington;' South', made an attack on ftiE DosiimoN. . ■■■•■. -.',

Mr.- Hindmarsh road.a;selected list-of shareholders of this. journal" as used byother 'speakers and writers during' tho campaign, Iho object being to show that a number-of largo landowners'arc interested 'in tho paper. Do continued ia this 'strain: "Now you ■ know' why The Dominion is against me- and against my friend Mr. Moore and my'friend Mr. M'Laren. . The man who . writes the leaders in The Dominion does it becauso he is phid to. If we could offer him ,C 5 a yoar -more, than ho.is getting now ho would wtßo on our side. Perhaps £2 10s' would do it—or 10s., or even six-aiid. eightpence. .We have' a Labour paper, the 'Weekly Herald,' and if wo ■ could ■ go' to Mr. Earle,' the editor of The Dominion, apd offnr to make him editor of .the. 'Herald' at a'bigger salary than he-is getting now,, he. would write and say thai I'm the best fellow in New Zealand. Spnio political pimp writes an article in TnE Dominion against me, and you would-say, if you saw him speaking on this cart that you thought uothiug of him, but when you seo what ho says in print, you Ihink it is s&wtthing wonderful. Such men aro political pimps, to be bought and Bold, like beef in a butcher's shop. They prostitute, not their affections, but their opinions. I bco one. of the proprietors of tho 'Frco Lanco' over there. Will you confirm what I say? Tho people here will be jury and judge, and wo will tako a vote afterwards.'" •' , ' No answer from the gentleman addressed was hoard by The Dominion r*. porter: "• : ' ...■;' Mr. Hindmarsh: "The battle in Wellington is '-The Dominion newspaper and all , theso great landowners versus tho people'. (Applause.) There is-no' other issue, and every candidate Tin; Dominion 6upports, the working men should oppose him. .Tile, Dominion represents the worst feature of New Zealand to-day— tho largo wealthv. landowning class." A loud voice:'No! I . '

More - voices i What about. the "Post" and tho'"Times"? What about the "Times"?

.Mr. Hindmarsh: 'Oh!', the 'Times' is hardly worth mentioning I (Much applauso and laughter.) The Dominion l-i tho one to fight this time. . It .is TnE Dominion versus the democracy. You must support the candidates that are against Tm; Dominion newspaper. If you want a cheaper food, there must bo.'land taxation. There can, be no ameliorative legislation without taxation, and there can' Ik no further source of taxation but, tho land. The Dominion says there should'ho no further land taxation in New Zealand, and therefore there would bo no reform."