AIM APPEAL TO REASON.

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 December 1911, Page 8

AIM APPEAL TO REASON.

FOR THE TRIUMPH OF THE . LABOUR MOVEMENT. .

THE LABOUR CANDIDATE THE MAN AND HIS MISSION.

(Published by arrangement).

• To the Electors of Grey,— All over the world to-day the minds of labouring men are engaged upon the great social problem, and in the great industrial change which is certainly coming it is a hopeful sign of the times to find Labour aspiring to the realm of politics. Tnere are scurrilous scribes and political hirelings who endeavour to defile the fair iame of those who are using their noblest thoughts, their best endeavors, and their highest powers to raise the condition of their fellows, and who, by the most peaceable and persuasive means, are out before the voters of this i and other electorates in New Zealand to-day to usher in by the most con-| stitutional means of political action the new social order. j Such a man is Patrick Charles Webb. He is brought out by this I Council. This Council is composed 1 of Grey electors —many of them of | long years standing in the Grey; some of them £®re natives of the Grey; all 1 have interests in the Grey. The Council a* well as the Industrial Unions, from which the Council is | drawn, have lost faith in professional! politicians of the party order. They, seek a new representation; they went! looking or a man who would stand for measures not men ; who cared nothing foot, party but everything for principle —•and they found P. C. Webb! j This Council is glad and proud that j it did find him. Throughout a long /three months of political campaigning Webb has. been gaining ground. With ■patient and persuasive tones and yet j with glowing enthusiasm and indonut-j able courage, he has preached the political gospel of the new unionism of j all/workers of the people, and thsi people received it well. ' ■; Labour stands fairly well united in 1 the Grey. It is the largest vote •everywhere and the Council makes this, appeal to the workers of every ■craft, of every trade and calling to support the member who, one way and ■ smother, has devoted all his life to the great cause-of Labour. ! Webb is, clean. His very enemies (political enemies—he has no others) | like the man. He is known every- 1 whete; not a' breath of suspicion is 1 <ev«or breathed against his name, and if the .New Zealand House of Parlia-j megit were composed of such men as hei New Zealand -would be a better cotlntry and life Would come easier to! alUits earnest workers. His plat-j fornu is sound; you have heard it —I twite .most - of you. It is stolen from nq-man. Webb never steals. It is

the platform of this Council. It calls for the abolition of monopolies. What other member but a Labour member cares? It calls for a shorter day iu the more toilsome works ! Who else cares for this but a Labour member? It wants equal pay to either sex for equal work. Is not this the world’s wealth for the world’s workers? And why not? It wants the land for the people. And who else should have it? But enough of the platform, it has been spoken; it'has not been confuted. It will nnt. be confuted on Thursday either. It and its speakers will be ruling New Zealand in ten years—“with a working majority” as the old time politicians say: Yes, a majority of workers ! With the keen vision of a young and hopeful man, Webb also sees the local possibilities of the Grey. Its farming possibilities are great. Webb comes from a farming country. Its mining possibilities are greater. Webb knows this and believes that, given better harbour facilities, better means of inland communication, the Grey may and will become one of the greatest and most flourishing industrial centres in the Southern Hemisphere; its coal mining will be as prodigious as on the banks of the Hunter. Workers of the Grey! Your fellows on this Council have given you an honourable representative; it expects and believes you will support him, and that he will be elected ; he will do you credit; he will do everybody credit and every intelligent worker who has the interests of his: class at heart is going to vote for j Webb. I The Political Labour Party knows; there are restless times ahead and j times of stress and strain; but it! knows that P. C. Webb, in Parliament j and out, will never forsake the Labour. principles; but) painstaking, con- ] scientious, persevering and self-sncri- j firing he will found, 4 not throwing bombs, T ‘nor destroying .machinery, but patiently }working ofti for the good of humanity, the benefit of llis fellows, and the uprising brethren whose lot is so hqrd and hopeless in these latter years, ’ ’• / p ■ Thanking-tlfe electors <tf Grey for the very fine hearing giv on everywhere to our respected candidate, and trusting he will be well' Supported’to-mor-row. ' ' « i Yours faithfully,)’. POLITICAL LABOUR (COUNCIL OF GREY. |H: ' -