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Liberals at Casterton. LA1BOR'S FIGHTItNG FUND. I £100,000 ANUA?LLy. t The Liberal rally demonstration was concluded on Saturday night at Cas ;terton by a public meeting in the A.N.A. Hall, which was crowded. Cr. Little presided. e Mr. A. S. Rodgers, M.II.R., said tha b Federal Parliament had arrived at. a t position of absolute deadlock. He men 'tioned when on the hustings that he was not a. keen party. man.: Ie did not believe in the acute party system. It was not possible that all should full into one great line of thought: The party 'system was essential, but their first-duty" was to recognise, not party, but that they were all idustra hans.- The,r opponents, the Labor Party, claimed to have 100,600. mem bers, "whose annual contributions in aid of their cause were said to reach £100,000. It was up to the ilierals to make greater sacrifice than they 'did, though he need not complain, as in Wannon they sacrificed both time atnd money to secure his return. The Liberal Party i)ad ge oan sick of° the position I dl Federal politics, aned so were. ar ranging to test the constituencies on two measures, viz., voting by post and preference to. unionists. _'Why should the Public Service.be a -spe cial preserve for the unionists. To his mind, all born into this world. should have a right :to.- earn a crust- for themselves under reasonable cbnuitions. For the last. two or three miouths? he had been asked almost every day whe ther . they- are likely to secure-fthe double dissolution. He confidently' be lieved they were going :to get it. .One feature of modern day pblitics was the clear-cut line between the two great political parties. T?he .Liberal . tarty believed in niemberi- being -representa ti-es; the Labor - Party 'aid . they must be delegates, even Mr. Watson laying down the proposition that they must have mere delegates. That meant that the -Labor Party were not going to take the risk of allowing any man they sent in to use his ovp a brain; he was only to be -their dele gate. Mr. Mackinnon, State Attorney General, 'said he-oas amused at the Labor Party taking credit for the Workers' Compensation -Act, for hee first introduced it in 1907, when asso- ! ciated with the Bent Government. Ilien he joined the present Govern ment lie. was asked to take it up 1 again, with the result that it -was pass ed into law. Touching on railway I matters, 'ir. Maceinnon mentioned sympathetically the one proposed from Casterton to the Edenhope district. It was not likely their Policy of rail way construction woul. d stop .until all parts of the country had received con sideration. The present Government claimed especially to be interested ien considering the needs of country dis tricts, and were pursuing a deceatralis ing policy. This was also shown by i their unotin , £20,000 for railway work shops at Ballarat and Bendigo. There is money in soap. -Mr. Josepih\ Fels, the American soap manulanactuer, hcho died recently, left £40,000,000 to A Iis widow. - n

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