MR MASTERS ON MR DICKIE’S STATEMENTS.
Tn our first article to-day we mention some of our reasons for believing that many electors who maintain an even mind on political questions will remain unimpressed by -Air -Masters’ efforts to make out a case for the United -Party in this election campaign, but here we would like to draw attention briefly to a statement which spoilt the whole effect of his address for some persons. Mr Alasters, in criticising the Govern-
incut’s loans to settlers policy, quoted, a statement which he attributed to Mr H. G. Dickie as a member of Parliament. during a debate in the House. This statement criticised the Government’s interference with private financial interests and drew attention to the serious position which might conceivably arise were all the -State mortgagors to organise and make concerted demands upon the Government. The original speaker had said that State borrowers could command a thousand votes in every electorate and they could, by organisation, do what thoy vrould with the -Government. The failure of the 'Socialism of the Reform party was “deplored.” Air Masters made great capital out of this statement which he attributed to Air Dickie; lie could, not. resist the temptation to make a play upon the words and the politics of the member supposed to have uttered them, Air Alasters made his point successfully at the time, tickling the ears of his audience with a picture of the “Reformer” who thought it wrong that the common people should have the benefits of cheap m-oney, to the disadvantage of the investing capitalist. There was only one weakness in the case presented to an admiring audience by Mr Alasters, but unfortunately for him it was a fatal one. It was. not -Mr Dickie who made that statement in the House! It was Air Vcitcli, one of the leaders of the United Party!
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 November 1928, Page 4
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