Fusion Proposals

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 287, 31 August 1931, Page 11

Fusion Proposals

Sir, —Under the above heading I notice the names of Mr. L. Nelson, Mr. W. D. Hunt, and others, in reply to Mr. Coates and evidently trying to bluff him to accept fusion by stating there is little difference between the two parties. Notwithstanding that the prices of our products were continually falling during the last three years, yet the Government kept on continually increasing wasteful expenditure and taxation in. spite of the fact that the country’s income was continually being reduced, and naturally, of course, a. reckoning day must come. Those businessmen’s proposals are about three years late; have they been sleeping those three years, or why come with this on ■the eve of an election? ... No businessmen are going to disfranchise the members of the Reform Party, as it certainly won’t support those Uniteds who proved by their actions and the methods by which they attained the Treasury Benches, and their amalgamation since then where their proper place for fusion lies. Those actions have all to be accounted for to the electors, and we certainly won’t join them and have to share in the burden of carrying their sins. I consider it the height of audacity for a section of the community, no matter how select they may be, to try and force a proposal of this kind on a party, also the electors, on the very eve of a general election.— I am, etc., FARMER. August 27.