POLITICAL EXCHANGES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13428, 9 July 1914, Page 4

POLITICAL EXCHANGES.

(From oit tarlia^tai? Reporter.) - WELLINGTON, this day., , The member »iedm Nprtfi. yesterday sought to amuse the House by. reading * revised Version .of. the .Witch a himself. / The 'i>ot of ' Opposition wild probably , have bubbled .more, merrily had vices of a. more - effective decl^.mefc, He peVLvered heroically, with. ?ST adaptation, .but kftf the literary effort by shboting < o« ° The n niembW fbr Wallace follow^ proceeded to- discute m<*.. *M ThS^Si. condemnation of tion. The hon. member vemind^ me Jf a lawyer, who, heing;' without a.m> better areument, abuses the. other side, said M? J. 0. Thomson. "He" forgets many thincs m his satisfaction with" the party of his aUegiince> •' H<- foVgets that it was thevparty at present on this side of the House which laid down the great policy upon which this Dominion is working to-day. Ib laid down the policy which is still the" cause, together witli the activities of the people, the pr^ent prosperity of ■ tho Dominion.- lhftt poUcv was condemned ;,yeaiMn andvy^r out by the hon. gentlemen •nbw^occup.yinj? the Treasury benches, vHwe-^e -seen any evidence of cortstruciive statesmanship from that party? 'I« there any Stho Governor's Speech ? ■ I .say tliere is not one .thing In it .whi^v co^be called new, or which 'is' Komg to alleviate the lot of tliose^rho haveto ficht the battle of life m New Zealand. (O : pj^iUon applause.) Butv^ ..s*^t posak m. it for the piling on Uieflr ba^U of fvu-ther taxation. , Before that &trvernment tiUaine'dthe'l'tcasuvy benches, they dcclawd , throucchont. the country that the lugh cost of living- wa-s caused by the .excessive, taxation piled on_ thb hacks of. the peoplo bV-th^ LibM-a1 oaHv. What is their attitude now on

the' taxation question? Afiatn, wlio was ''. it aeelared that if the-cheap mmiey pTo,yo£l were made law,. it .would weigh more heavily .on th^backs -of era than thY property. tax .repealed 'the Liberal Government'? Who butt the ' •'rieht lion, the PrimS MinisfeV?\ : (Oppov sition applause.) It is- all, right when the Treasury ' benches avo won to repudiate the pant. >ut this- stdo of the House is going, to be insistent .m conileiwiinp the juggling which 'f bjulg indulced m by- tim Reform partyvi'fespectine the -prosperity of this' country, and its causes." added' the member. -;*«ud of "Hear, hear" .from, the, Liberal and derisive GoverhmcTiUa.ughMs. ' ■.-'*'-' ' '' ''■':'• ' *'•'•• Another 'exponent of the chaiiged -flctics due to the changed viewpoint was' Mr J. A. Hanan, who, quoted, a leading Conservative newspaper ''as.- saying "the country has witnessed the unedifvinc ! «nectficle of- Ministers •qareei-iiig through the country at pubJiCr; expenae m search for' votes .which are, paid for ' m the shape of doles and grants." Mr Hanati confessed that this^ was written fliaout Liberal Ministers, but Mie confi■aentlv applie/1 it to the present . holders • of office. ■ •"•'■■-