SPEECH BY MR RUSSELL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1914, Page 5

SPEECH BY MR RUSSELL.

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1 CHRISTCHURCH, March 6. i In'the course of an address to his constituents 'Mr G. W. Russellj Memhber for Avcai, laid down lines of the Liberal He said that it would be the duty of liberalism to -tackle sickness incapacity, unemployment, ignorance, incompetence, "immorality, the gambling evil, and tie drink evil with the whole force of the State.

Mr Russell proceeded to define what he regarded -as the fundamental principles of Liberalism, including government by the people for the people ancl'not'for any one class,.'!the use of national revenues to'deteat monopoly, to cost living,' to, compel subdivision of lands'to the t iitmost 'limits of profitable occupation, to retain the ■ undiscovered mineral wealth of $ie country and to work the same for 'the common' weal, to establish State farms, factories, and woi-kshops in order to prcvfde employment" for the -delicate, aj*ed, .xr'd infirm, the right of every child to good Health and the highest education practicable, the right of every person "to medical and legal -assistance, and the right of every 'honorable rightr-living man- and woman to a reasonable 'shfere of comfort and happiness in life.