ESTABLISHED 1875. Manawatu Daily Times The Oldest Manawatu Journal. Conducted by E. D. HOBEN. Published Every Morning. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1911 SIR JAS. CARROLL'S MEETING.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1455, 7 November 1911, Page 4

ESTABLISHED 1875. Manawatu Daily Times The Oldest Manawatu Journal. Conducted by E. D. HOBEN. Published Every Morning. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1911 SIR JAS. CARROLL'S MEETING.

Sir James Carroll had an excellent meeting at Levin last night, and had no difficulty in clearing away the little tilings in the way,of misrepresentation which Mr Massey had left behind him, The "Mofeau scandal," whioh whs so sedulously l'aniied by the Opposition party organisation and the organa it contiols, is now an exploded bogey, Sir James' reference to it was consequent upon the extraordinary audacity with which Mr Massey reiterated mattars, which he had not even attempted to substantiate before the Committee. No one who thinks for themselves of course is deoeived by the mock heroics of the Mokau, They know well that the very people who that the Government should have purohased would have denounced the Government by all thoir gods if they had even attempted to do so, and yelled in lond voices from end to end of the Dominion that it was the crowning act of a corrupt regime. This particular aspect of political ethics as now understood by the Opposition leaders was most trenchantly exposed by Mr Isitt when he declared to the House that in the short time he had been in the House he had A

"Listoned to one constant stream of insinuation, of inuendo, of vague charges of bribery aud corruption, of maladministration, and political graft against the wen now in power,"'

And as a result of his caroful observation he wanted,to tell'his friends throughout the Dominion that

"'Jhere is no bribery, lioi corruption, no mala'iministiation; there is no political graft; the Ministers of. tliß Drown are shamefully'libelled; and men aud women, New Zealand through, should turn a deaf ear to these cowardly untruths."

Yet Mr Massey has continued to utter them eyen sinoe that awful castigation and the repeated exposore of the baselessness of liis charges.