FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16614, 9 December 1919, Page 3

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

COMPLICATED ISSUES. STATEMENT BY ME. ‘WATT. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. SYDNEY, Dec. 8. It would he difficult to elaborate tho issues really to bo decided by the electors at next Saturday's poll. Both parties claim as tbeir main plank antiprofitoormg and financial readjustment. Since tiie Labour policy was announced tho atmosphere has become clouded by many side issues of Hughesism and Ryauism. Air. Watt (tho Federal Treasurer), as spokesman for tho Nationalists, defines the position as follows; “Whether we •smash up tho States and have a unification, whether we authorise an experiment of universal Socialism, whether the country is to bo ruled by law or by direct action, whether wo are to have a career of financial debauchery and insolvency, whether we are to overthrow compulsory training and declare Australia defenceless and open to any predatory nation, whether Bolshevism shall stalk Australia, and whether wo shall weaken and destroy our Empire partnership.’’ Labourites scornfully repudiate Mr. Watt's assumption that their success at tho polls would lead to a fulfilment of conditions such as ho describes.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.