The Hastings Standard Published Daily. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2, 1896. A NATIONAL POLICY.

Hastings Standard, Issue 186, 2 December 1896, Page 2

The Hastings Standard Published Daily.

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 2, 1896. A NATIONAL POLICY.

For the cause that lacks assistance. For the wrongs that need resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

A Mr W. A. Mtrray, of Waikato, in an address delivered at a meeting' of settlers, formulated what he terms a national policy, and an the National Ass. is in need of a suitable stall, the ten planks of Mr Murray's platform may be found acceptable for the construction of the same. They are good, serviceable weather-boards, and may even suit the Opposition, and be used by them to build up their platform. Mr Murray's natioual policy is as follows : 1. To educate the people in sound principles of political economy and social and political morality. 2. To encourage the patriotic and national aspirations of the people, and increase the number of freehold and happy homes. 8. To encourage the friendly cooperation of labor and capital, so that we, as a community united by kindly feelings and by a common interest, may work together to the best advantage to lighten our burdens and successfully meet the keen and ever increasing competition with which in all industrial occupations we must contend. 1. To encourage honest enterprise and industry individually and collectively, by removing disabilities and impediments to success, and assure to

every individual his or her just rights and recompenses. 5. To discourage the stirring up of class animosities and expose the schemes of unprincipled political place hunters and social parasites who aim to divide and delude the people that they may plunder them under a pretence of governing them. 6. To insist on prudent economy and resist unnecessary taxation. 7. T o resist further bartering of the people's liberty for borrowed money. 8. To secure the registration of electors. 9. To select for each Parliamentary constituency a candidate of proved integrity and ability. 10. That Cabinet Ministers should pass a standard examination in general knowledge and political economy.