MR ROLLESTON AT AKAROA.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9508, 20 October 1893, Page 3

MR ROLL ESTON AT AKAROA.

AKAROA, Thursday. Mr Rolleetin, whois a candidate for th* Ellesmere electorate, nddrrs^d a large meeting- ofeelectore bere last night. He stioogly attacked the Government, t&yiog that tbonph they had token up tbe shibboleths of the fxtremis'n, they had been checked partly by the conetltntloo of their own party (which was largely oat of sympathy with them) and partly by the vigilant and sttong though numerically weak Opposition, nnd mainly by the robust common sf n»i i f tbe practical commnnlty. The rest Parliament ■W oald look for FOmethiog better than stump oratory and nilly denunciation of capital and pandering to cupidity and ignorance. He condemned the taxation of the GoverDtnenr. which whs very h . unevenly adjusted between town and , * -<• country, sod opeaklog on tbe land question, be said that practical | success bad been spoiled by the importation of impracticable theories. The ci operative works were another instance of the adoption of crude theories, and as to the finances of the conn try the net - pnb is debt bad been steadily increasing, «ud the plea of non-boi rowing was notlrely disproved by figured, There oighti to be no change In the railway management). He concluded with laying down tbe principles which grided himself and those working with biro. They were:-(l) Equality of all classes before the law. Tbe Legislature and Government should present all tho constituent elements of a nation, nit merely a n timer, icat mvprity of the inhabitants; nob town vertus country, n"r labor versus capital. Equal rights should be accorded , to all claßßts, and foir and iqual, not pooitlve, taxfttioD. (2 ) Indiridoal freedom, as disttoeufshed from Socialistic views. Freedom of trade as opposed to the eelfisbnesa of Protection, freedom of theught and freedom of action so long as 00 injury is done to a man a neighbors. (3.) To avoid the degrading influence of paternalism. (4.) To set np a strong iy»tem of losal government, with, so far as possible, local endowments. (5.) Land revenue to be brought into the ospital acoonnt and devoted to developing the land. (6 ) Elective Legislative Council. There were no qnestlonr, and a motion of thanks and confidence in tbe speaker was all bat uflMlmoasly carried, an amendgwb of tbwki only pot b«Jos Mflondtd,