LIBERAL OR TORY?

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12942, 6 December 1909, Page 4

LIBERAL OR TORY?

Last week Mr Massey — the landowner's fuend — had a tew remarks to make upon the Land Bill by means of which Sir Joseph Ward propotes to" sell the land which belongs to the country. The fact that Sir Joseph doesn't own it himself ought to make him more careful. But apparently the desirability, not to say the propiiety, ot retraining from selling other people's property has not suggested it?t-ll to the Premier. But, to return to Mr Massey ! The squatters' journal, the Dominion (issue of December 3rd), thus roporty Mr Massey: — "Speaking on the Bill, he said that he was supporting it, and he \wbhed to go a great deal further

than the Bill proposed."

Apparently Sir Joseph Ward is not prepared to sell enough of the people's lands to please Mr Massey. But he is satisfactory to Mr Massey as far as he goes. And Mr Massey, while anxious for a whole grab, is yet prepared to accept a half grab for the present, with the hope of getting the other half by and bye/ So he will support Sir Joseph Ward. The spectacle of Mr Ma.ssey supporting Sir Joseph Ward — and upon a Land Bill of all things — is calculated to confirm good Liberals in their steadily-growing belief that their alleged leader is really a. Tory.