LIBERALS AND LABOURITES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 53, 8 April 1914, Page 6

LIBERALS AND LABOURITES.

To the Editor of THE SUN. ,--r : Sir,— Yojir correspondent "Liberal,'A writing in. yesterday's issue,.-appears td be . very, much perturbed at my outspoken expression of opinion concern-., ing- the action of the Social "Democratic Party. Poor old '' Libef £tl"! Like his party, h<3 : .is living in tHe past. I sup- •. pose it's a case'of senile decay. How pathetic he is when he talks about what, they have, done** for the workers. and how'they dfealt with us during "several strikes "with the utmost .leniency." Yes, ** they, were very lenient , with 'us after , - they, realised... our power. • It was, how- . ever, not in mercy they-dealt with us r but- in fear and trembling; When Ward thought he was strong enough to ignore us in the first butchers ' strike; ,we were fined and our wages impounded; and what did Mr Eussell say at Ashburton, last week? "If the Opposition "had '-• been ill power they would have been . forced to keep open the ports." Where, then, is the difference t between , Massey aiid Ward? The' Liberals- have swal- * lowed their principles on "the. land question. They voted toi a with Mas- >/ sey on the Labour Dispntes Bill. They have resurrected a LiberalJLabour organisatiori'' in. CJhi'istchUrfeh' tb rob us- df' ■* all they can of the Labour vote. They discussed recently in one of their prin- , eipal committees the .desirability "of , joining in some electorates with Reform to erush" the Social Democrats, and now they come cryingitotistrecairse wa have . no further use for them; They remind, one of the,j man who killed. Ms and*mother' and pleadedwiththe judge to have mercy on him because he was an 2-.>»V •• Liberal! iexception to us stating*that we intend to push his' party into! the Bankruptcy. Court .politically, and .pleads, past service. . Surely, he eanv - not- expect to live on past records?- The i very fact ,of him bringing it . .forth proves that, ; like a' potato, V the test of Jiim lis ; underground. -. We- ►want delivery of the goods; -What chance have. i ; we -of securing them through • tne Libe- ; ral'Party? I have read" their speeches; throiigh the country, 'ancT theymay'be ;. likened to an almost, extinct volcanorroccasionally a Jittle/mwfc. and, ( smoker and as to their- where . is it ? -I- am in a position to seeiire re- ' liable inside-information-, and I chal- * ? lenge '' Liberal" to deny the statement; that an order .has.:been .plaeed by .the :, leader oi the Liberal Party with a well-known rubber manufacturing company in Ohristchurch to manufacture 80 indiarubber policy suits to fit aiiy kind of candidate brought forth by the Liberal Party, and fitted with American valves.—l am, etc., . BED FED. "