SECOND EDITION. LIBERALISM DEFINED.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14234, 6 March 1914, Page 7

SECOND EDITION. LIBERALISM DEFINED.

MR. C. W. RUSSELL’S VIEWS. (Per United Press Associate r.i i CHRISTCHURCH. March 6. In the course of aa address to his consti tuents Mr G. AV. Russell laid down the lines of the Liberal policy, and said i would be the duty of Liberalism to tackl sickness, incapacity, unemployment, ig corance, incompetence, immorality, th gambler's evil, and the drink evil wit' me whole force of the State. Mr Russel proceeded to define what he regarded a 1 the fundamental prinein.es of Liberalism including government by the prop! ’ fo the people, not for any one class; the use of national revenues credit to ;K;e,i mono poly, reduce the cost of living, and com pel the sub-division of lands to the utmost limits for profitable occupation, -to retail, the undiscovered mineral wealth o' thcountry, and work the same for the common wealth; to establish State farms, factories, and workshops in order to provide employment for delicate, ayed, an! infirm : the right of every child of good health of the highest education piactirable; the right of every person to medical and legal assistance: the right of ever- honourable, right-living man and woman to a reasonable share of comfort ahd happiness of lify.