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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 68, 13 December 1919, Page 25

Men and Women I . OF NEW ZEALAND ! The hour has struck ! The call has come! Remember what you owe to' Liberalism : Answer the challenge of its enemies I Stand by Liberalism to-day! 1 - Women of New Zealand ! Liberalism by passing the Women's' Franchise Act first recognised your claim to | a share in our political duties and gave you the political rights that you now enjoy. | But Liberalism has given you more than the right to vote. 1 It is to Liberalism that you owe the It is to Liberalism that you owe the | Old Age Pension which averts the fear of Workers' Dwelling Act-which helps hus- | destitution, and those laws which protect band and wife to provide a home for the | you in case of desertion or bankruptcy. children and to keep the family together. I vltis to Liberalism that you owe the It is to Liberalism that you owe the | ■ care and comfort that even the poorest acts which secure for you pure and healthy [I . womian may now claim in the hour of her food and good weight and measure of all |Jj greatest need from maternity nurses or that you purchase. | ~ maternity homes. It.is to Liberalism that yon owe the 1 It is to Liberalism that you owe those Infant's Life Protection Act which saves | generous extensions of the Education helpless children from neglect and.starva- g • system which bring the benefits of intel- tion, the Factories Act which »aves child- | • • lectual training (free from primary school ren from slavery in their tender years and g , to University) within the roach of all, and the Employment without Pay Prevention | thus aid the children of even the poorest Act, which saves your boys and girls from' ' | to fit themselves for the struggle of life.. the sweat shop. | These are the Works of Liberalism! ' And in the new Liberal Programmo that has been put before the country, you can find pro- 1 posals for a more generous scheme of Old Age Pensions, special Pensions for Widows and | orphans, and provision for Maternity bonus and larger benefits to widows from the | Superannuation Fund, § Liberalism has always remembered your interests and your needs. Think well of all J these things before Polling day 1 111 Men and Women of New Zealand !• I To all who hold that the chief care of the State should be the People's Welfare, the case for Liberalism is proved beyond doubt or controversy. Liberalism for the past 25 years has • Liberalism by the educational facilities steadily kept humanism in the fore- that it has provided, and by the earnest front of its programme. _ efforts that it has constantly put forth to Liberalism, in the policy that it has improve the material conditions of life adopted toward women and children, the f or 6ven . the poorest and humblest, weakest and most defenceless section of }mg confcrikted llobl toward tkt { [ ■ the people, has guided its activities by a , „ , , . , J , , truly philanthropic purpose, entirely tellaotual, social, and up- ' in keeping with its fixed principle, " the lift on which the future of New Zealand greatest good for the greatest possible " ie T?^o^o civilized world bo largely number." depends. 'Soldiers of New Zealand ! J Now that you are back from the war, those for whom you have fought are I ready and eager to show they recognise our heavy debt to you and all alike are glad to do you honour and to give you some material recompense for all that you have risked and suffered. 11 j But all the gifts that your country now offers you, in form and character and I the method of their bestowal spring from the same great source of Liberalism. It was Liberalism that laid tho foundation—it was Liberalism that paved the way, II j < Without the Liberal Old Age Pensions ActWould you have a War Pensions System today ? ' Without the Liberal Lands for Settlement Act— , \ Would you have land available to take up ? II j Without the Liberal Advances to Settlers' Act, and Workers' Dwelling Act—Would you have help from the State to buy land and houses.? Without the Liberal Manual and Technical Education ActWould you be able to secure the special training that so many of you need ? I All this is part of your debt to Liberal- But . this conversion of Oonser- j ism. But remember—all these great vati&m to Democracy is a deathLiberal measures were passed ; by Ballanca' bed repentance—it. comes too and Seddon and Ward only in the teeth . lata 1 of the fiercest opposition from the Reform- What remedy has Masseyism ever appliecT'to ers of those days, with Mr. Massey him- the land monoply which is exploiting you ? self among them. , It is Sir Joseph Ward, and not Mr. Massey Today, what hope would you'have of, State who has striven to break up the great esaid, from the men who so long denounced tates, and who proposes that those of you \ Government interference with private en- who sold your land when you went to the ' terprise! What chance of Land Settle- war shall be able to buy it baok again with ment from the great Conservative Land- fair compensation for improvements, at lords who still pull the strings for Massey- reasonable advance, instead of the price ism if Liberalism had not compelled. • that the veraoious land profiteer asks you Reform to ohapge its outward guise 1 pay. Men of New Zealand! j Remember that Liberalism, because it is truly democratic, is loyal and patriotio too. It provides for National Defence—not by Four Months' Camp or needless Militarism, not by a costly and superfluous local navy, but by rational efforts consistent with our democratic duties, | such as our resources can sustain. • U It was Liberalism that offered the " Dreadnought" to the Empire; it was Liberalism \ that founded our National Army; it was Liberalism that, twenty years ago, in the dark II j days of the Boer War, gave New Zealand the lead that you have followed s°o nobly in these later-days. 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