Public works were begun on which the poor were taught it was a blessing to be employed, and which gave an enormous value to continuous properties. These works were done with the - people’s money, and- yet the poor people had to pay as much for. them os the rich bad, whose properties were so much bene fited. The poor- men had worked and made the railroads, and got nothing more than the

ri&'lit to pay a certain sum annually. Why I did they make tbs increased value of the pro. I perly which was enhanced by those works a present to the rich owners, while they them selves remained poor ? If tbo people asserted their rights they would soon become laud owners themselves, but if not, they would re main poor all their lives, lu the North Island people understood this. The fciouth was wild with the Ministry because it had raised the railway rates. What did that matter to the masses, who had no produce, but who bad to be carried on them ? If they had a laud tax put on tho unearned increment, which belonged to themselves, they would havo the use of the railways for a compara tively small sum, au.l they would not feel the tax. At the present moment too interest ou tho loan of ll£ millions was paid annually by the 500,000 people in the colony, and was just £3 a-head, which was paid annually to make other people rich. It seemed to him in credible that a married man should pay £ls, for that was what tho average amount would bo for such a purpose. The people were robbing themselves—they must unite. Was Auck land, Southland, or Dunedin to set about fighting Christchurch about things of com paratively no importance? What did it signify who was in office? Let them put in oifico men pledged to put this land tax on (Applause.) The Government talked about the bounteous pay given to tho railway servants and the police, but if they took away from that pay what each man gave to pay tho interest on our debt to make others rich, their pay would not seem very large then. These truths should make them unite to get what they were entitled to. 