POLITICS AND LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 8, 9 July 1912, Page 3

POLITICS AND LABOUR

WHY THE LIBERALS WENT UNDER POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY PLACED BEFORE PRINOD7LES. [BY TBLEGRA*H — SPECIAL TO TH* VOST.} DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. J. H. \ M'Manus, a prominent Labour leader, and the opponent of Mr. Sidey for Dunedin South in December last, 6«en by a Star representative regarding Labour's view on the political situation, said: — "The Liberal party has gone under because for years past political expediency has been placed before principles, which has developed such a state of affaire that there are disappointed eelf-seefcere who have undermined the party. This political expediency has so excluded political principles that the fight between the' two parties hae developed into a. sham, in which the reasons lor the old battle did not appeal, because the electors had a difficulty in discovering any line of demarcation. In the long run New Zealand will gain, because the Maseeyites will attract the Conservatives from the Liberal party, and the battle of the future will De on straight-out, defined 1 principles, as was the case in the days of Mr. Seddon. ' The Radicals in the Labour party must get together. Th© land policy of Labour 16 in direct opposition to that of Mr. Massey, and so also is the taxation policy ; in fact, Labour has nothing to nope for from the present Government."