WHO IS INDISPENSABLE?

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1409, 9 April 1912, Page 6

WHO IS INDISPENSABLE?

Sir,—AH is not lost. Sir Joseph tells us that he appreciates the honour of being the trusted leader of a great party, but he has also to remember his own pride, dignity, and honour; that at present lie cannot, as asked, retain the leadership, but that later, if wo are good bovs, and show wo dp not believorthe "lies" about him, he is prepared £o do all he can to help the country on. Meantime, we must console ourselves with' Kipling's lines:— • Twelve hundred million men are spread '■ About this earth, and I and You Wonder, when You and I are dead, What will these luckless millions do? • , . . iand falls the night For You or Me. Do thoso who live decline • The step that offers, or their work resign? Trust me, To-day's Most Indispeasables, Five hundred men can take Your place or Mine, 'I am, etc., ' RUDYARD. March 22. "LIBERAL" STAGE MANAGEMENT. ' Sir,—l was on the PaJmerston platform on March 8 when the Main Trunk train camo, and left again, but I saw no on-, thusiasm and heard no cheers. People just went about their business as usual. In fact,. X don't believe, except those concerned, that anyone knew Sir Joseph' Ward was on board. And I think if Sir Joseph heard the quiet, country, folk discuss the political situation, ho would find that they wero judging from past doings pf the "Liberal" party, not from what: they hear and see in the Opposition press at this juncture. They all agree that abuses liavo crept in owing to too long tenure of office, and the country would benefit by a change.—l am, etc., A WOMAN. Bunnythorpe, March 24.