LABOUR AT THE POLLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19445, 3 November 1925, Page 6

LABOUR AT THE POLLS

Mr. Coates reiterates to-day in his final appeal to the electors the oft-repeated statement that the issue of the general election is between Reform and Labour. Some people may say that there is no need to fear lest Labour should be returned to power at the general election to-morrow, but Labour itself believes that it will win the next general election if it does not win this one, and those who hold Labour cheap may help it to win. Undoubtedly Labour derives much of its strength from those whom it hopes to injure; if all those against whom Labour is working put their best efforts into resisting it, Labour’s success would not be very great.

Labour is working first of all against, every farmer. It is working against everybody who does business with farmers, and who flourish as they flourish. It is working against every merchant and every manufacturer, every mine-owner, and every ship-owner, against every controller of every business big or small who wants to be free in order to be efficient. It is working against every city dweller who owns his own house, or has ratable, or taxable property, and especially against every working man not in the Government service who wants continuity of employment.

Not only is Labour’s confiscatory policy a direct menace to every citizen who believes in having property of his own but it is also a menace to the State. News from New South Wales dur-

ing the past few days has shown us what a Labour Government means. In that State the railwaymen who rebelled against the community eight years ago lost their places. The Labour Government has ordered their reinstatement. The Labour Government refused to enforce the law against the shipping strikers. Labour government is mob government. There is only one way to prevent mob government in New Zealand, and that is to ensure a Reform majority in Parliament.