POLITICAL POINTS

Evening Star, Issue 18120, 9 November 1922, Page 1

POLITICAL POINTS

“ Yon may trick them for a while, ini you cannot fool a people who s-ro cihi cuted.”—•Mr John Gilchrist.' fSir Andrew Russell told the H.wtli;electors that ho did not understand the working of Proportional Representation, so ho could’ not offer an opinion on it. In Australia, ho added, amid laughter. I. was known as “contertkmal misrepresent;’, lion.” “The worker is not audacious piiongii ; he is too modest in his claims.”—Mr Join Gilchrist. ’’The. majority of strikes .have not- been caused by Labor agitaiore, but- by financial institution'. and to-day these insthu(ions are coing to forte this country inti, strikes if Mr Massey gets into power." - Mr Moss, Labor candidate. * * * * “Tho Labor Party does not slfl.m! for confiscation; it only stands to administer the principles of ‘taxation.”—Mr Mof.«, La bo r co ndida tc. •Jy rt -iv •»(r Candidates are putting out feelers as to abolishing triennial Parliaments in favor of the quinquennial period. Already Mr Ilawkcn, M.P., and Air Eolleston are advocating. tho extension. Both are Reform■ ovs. # ff & Tour big combines absolutely controlled the Massey Government, asserted Mr B. D. Martin, tho Labor candidate for Kaiapoi. They wore the banks, the insurance and financial companies, tho shipping combine, and the large land monopolists. 4p -Jr *#■ Dr Thacker, Alqyor of Christchurch and member for Christchurch East, describes Mr Massey's manifesto as “an omnium gathering, 'a great big soothing poultice on a semi-comatesc patient.” * * * * “If another war is threatened, I hope the workers in every country will rise and stop it. If it does come it will be a chemists’ war, and you will be peppered from above—sprayed as if you were insect pests.”—Mr John Gilchrist. * * -x- * At Die Chamber of Commerce dinner the other day, said Air Mo«». Labor candidate' for Dunedin West., in his address on Tuesday evening. the Hon. W. Downio Stewart said in ' connection with the North v. South question, that there were five Southern members in tho Cabinet, and if they could not pull their weight it was their own fault. But, in spite of the fact that, there were five Southern members in the Cabinet, remarked tho candidate, it was shown by a return that, the number of settlers actually going on tho land in every province of the South Island- was decreasing. x- * * * Christchurch, before it took up liberalism, said Mr W. I!. Devereux, Government candidate for Christchurch Last, in his opening address, was the finest city of New Zealand. To-day, after twenty years of LiberaUsm, it was a third-rate city. Under the Labor Party it would become a sixth-rate city. » « -y- ® “A Christian .said his prayers at night* and said ‘Thy kingdom come, Thy wil be done on earth.’ Wo have bseu prayii ( now for many thousands of years, and n( one objected, and there is some similaritj between tho -Labor Party's platform_ ar < those words.”—Air Moss, Labor Candida;* for Dunedin AA T est. «. « * * ‘•I am one of the Labor Party who believes in five and unrestricted competition, both for manufacturers and tho working classes.”—Mr Afoss, Labor candidate. * Speaking at Alaheno, the Hon. K. P. Leo" stated that the knowledge of t.ho prisons and reformatories of Now Zealand he lurd gained since he had' been a, member of the Government enabled him to say that the Home authorities could with iidViuitege copy our methods.