FEDERAL POLITICS.
The Bar»ion Government Wa«!^*ty Criticised. Presß Association .—Telegraph.— Copyright. Received August 18, 9.45 a.m. . > SYDNEY, August 18. Mr George Reid, speaking at Bowral, in the course of a slashing attack on the Government, said if one thinjf more than another -marked Sir Edmund Barton's Government it was* their subservient crawling in the way they had kept one eye on tjie Labour members. The line of honourable alliance between the two parties had been CTOBsed, and the line of discreditable subserviency reached.' "I charge the Government," he said, "with being a dishonorable tool in the hands of the Labour Party ,'\ He thoroughly favoured the "white Australia" policy; but the? Government, by their treatment of the subject of coloured labour on mail steamers, had brought "the policy into utter contempt. He did not wish his greatest enemy anything worse than the stokehold of a steamer in- tlie -Red Sea, and did not believe it was the working man in Australia who wanted to go into the stokehold on one of these steamers. ' Regarding preferential trade, he said we can. safely trußt the British people to do what is right by Mr, Chamberlain's scheme.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11028, 18 August 1903, Page 7
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193FEDERAL POLITICS. Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11028, 18 August 1903, Page 7
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