The Opposition, it seems, have two distinct policies before the country. One Opposition is designed to catch the town Insincerity, voters, and the other to entrap the country settler. ■Speaking to the electors of Hawkes Bay —men of substance and with a substantial stake in the country—Captain Russell roundly condemned the labor legislation ot the Government, saying that such legislation had been largely responsible for much of the distress that had existed in the colony for the last five years. Speaking at Dunedin to those whose only s f ake in the country is that they are wage earners, Mr Scobie Mackenzie assures the workers that no attempt will he made to interfere with labor legislation already ■passed Now, who are we to believe in this impor tant matter—the Opposition leader or the Opposition candidate for Dunedin .' For our part, we are prepared to take Captain Russell’s word for it, because it is more in accord with the policy of the Oppo sition throughout. Daring the past six years the Opposition Press have never ceased to rave at the so called socialistic legislation of the Govern ment. Every t measure introduced and passed in the interests of the worker in town or country has been dubbed as an attack upon capital, or the letting loose of the “ seven devils of Socialism !’’ Factories, Shop Hours, Industrial Concilia tion and Arbitration, Truck, Wages Lieu Acts, and such legislatiou has been all along strongly denounced from the Conservative platform and through the Conservative Press ! And now we have the spectacle of an Opposition candidate in this City deliber ately throwing dust in the of the workers, and telling them that he will not favor interference with any of these things ! He is in favor of the Shop Hours Act, but would exclude shopkeepers who employ no labor from its operations. 