FEDERAL POLITICS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 13054, 23 April 1910, Page 5

FEDERAL POLITICS.

GREAT LABOUR RALLY

Speech by Mr. Fisher.

Policy Outlined

'res? Association—Telegraph.—Copyright. Received April 23, 9.0 a.m. BRISBANE, April 23. A great Labour rally was held in the Exhibition Hall last night. The appearance of Mr A, Fisher and three Labour senators was the signal for tumultuous cheering.

‘ Mr Fisher declared that had the people been consulted at the time the Fusion was formed, the Fusion Government would never have existed. Had the late Government carried out its policy in regard to the financial agreement it would have frustrated Australian progress. There was something greater than the return of Labour members, and that was the rejection of the financial agreement. The Labour Government would proceed to carry out land value taxation. Such taxation was economically sound and right. They would proceed to adjust the economic conditions so that people who desired to draw wealth from the natural resources would be ■ afforded reasonable opportunities to do so, and to open avenues of employment for people living in other parts of the world. They would welcome people of European descent in any number as soon as the economic conditions make it possible for them to obtain a livelihood. As regards defence, they would proceed to carry out their programme as announced for ton years past. If the people desired the country to be protected they must pay, and the Government would ask them to provide the necessary money. Within a year there would be a,t least one Labour daily paper in Australia, and within three years there would be six Labour dailies in the Commonwealth.