THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1455, 1 June 1912, Page 4

THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Mn. JliUjA'r's speech at .Bupedih. on .Thursday eveiiing, altho.iigh i : t, : occupied only a fd\v. i.n:cli.es qI news-, paper space, willijrpbabiy.bp.vqgarded by many people's ,6f f'ai> greatcr ' importance than j.ho Vftryv long: aintl. unsatisfying oratipji ■p.'f the. 'PivfjiE Minister delivered.ihp same , evening. Mb. Mackekzie's: .speech... ivas; ffor.dy , and indefinite; |Ib> ; .Mjl-Lar'-s, v/.as: terse and to the .Tlie jpe.iriber for Dunedin, in effect;, l.qlid. jt dQwij. that so far as he , - AKas, concerned .and so far as he could ih.flucrice: the. si'tu-; afcion, he would assist to bust the , pro-, sent stop-gap M.ihjsfiSy from office... That accomplished he , {ipp'ed'tb ; spe a : now party composed of the-iiiodei-Jitp-progrcssive elementi o.n. h.o&i side's ', come into oxistencp' and..assu"m6 con.-: trol of the country's .iiffairs.. F.aiiing this, he w;pu;ld cndea.ypui' td : bring about a dissolution and so. p.e'v-1 mit the country to settle the question I of who is to rules.-' , .Mj:...MjUnit's , .at-.' titude is quite reasonable , ancl.no. one , can really find, fault with it His objection to thc : pre.seii.t Ministry is , ) only one of many which- ;cah. bs a.d- '< vanced against it. }J.b .makes no men-; tion of its incpinpßte.nc'i , , -or at the unconstitutional nat.ute , q.f its assumption of th4:#insnf;.gsTCrrth>ftiit;i he simply condfrnrts it ioAitnght # "a party at tho beck .arid , 'call, (if five , , or six men who. dra.g. it, -ftjsniigl'i; fl'ii , ' mud at their own Mvi'e-t ivHK" Amithis no doubt .s.tii.iis Tip tlib si,sii.ation ; so far as the , oovni'jiin.e.n't is; -cirn- ! earned very well. The Uiihcdjtu cOi , - rospondent of o« .evening; tohii;Miporary, in his Aceqimfc of' the. pvti- : ceeclin'gs at Mr , , MiLUii's.gathering,, stated tlxat MESSRS. SiBKY im<\ [ Clark. M.P.'sj wlio. were aftiQiigst the sp'eakevs, &.aia. .tliai ,ib. thfe. ci.ii-.; cus of the Liberal paiity m. February "thev ;had pg, : Millah for tie Pr.emierEhip.ih , pie-.

iorenee. to Ms. JSlACMffitfrc, and both ■ gave j-t to lie understood that they ■ ■-iv-Givk! tec found Voting against % J-Asi-riiimctl when tljC iii'vislon. ■ is tnk.cn ' ;, ' These three votes alone* aijrirfe from othws on the Liberal sifte ai liiio Hoii.sa who sire known to object to the M;VCK.ENZft> Ministry, wftuid, with the Bcforin veto,. SdJil the; fate of the Government when PailiiVmeiiti meets. As a niijttcr of : fact iid one i'eafly expects it to survive tho first serious: challenge thrown oat, What the publw is most; co.iicoptien, about of course is ttiii probabilities alter Src Government is disfcatei SI'R, MMak's vi?w that tha ; : nrodorates ol the Haii.se she.uJo! ivn.ite .ilPiiinsi; the extremists is .tlio View ■ favoured by the JMor.m party. . a^ ■ afeo,. wfr bt-lieve, by the bulk o.f tiie : lieopre. of the Doriiinioiv, i\l.!!. JAMES. ■ A.ijtES, one of. the front-benchers o'£ fths Eeforhi party, wh© with other Otngi membtrS M the; party,, was ' present ut Mh- MjUab's social gathering, 'said '% w.ns in thorough. , agreement with M*. Mil.ub in oho , ■r.cni.ai'k.: that was that he ho.p:ed there wbujcl he< a rer-fo:rm<!;t : io.!i oi j ■ parties, and that a stable Govern- j ■'lTient syouicl be, the outcome w : h'ose ■ legislation would be on sauri.d a.ri.u p r'Qgressive lines:. ,, . It; may be taken . : for granted th.a.t these are jro'b mere. . empty' -wortls—fhat thevc is indeed ; a strong feeliiig amougst the raadeii.ates pit hath sides of', the Hoiise thaC Che time ; has ; a.rrivetl ivh.eri they 'intisfc sink ijiiiipi diffarences and make : caminon. cati'so ag.aiust the ■c.xtre.ni-: ists'ancl these: wlid for various, i'pasons have allied themselves with the. ex;trcinjsjts. There are -hp gfeab 4-ifti-- ! Qulti.es in. th.p .way , of an iiig being a.r-nved at fautuiilly satis- : factory to. ih'ose who se& the neces^ . s.ity lor forming a sOund : and , stable Government to. .replace ths ljiake.shif tMiiiistry now in cliargc of the -editm tryV affairs. MitLAR. aiid' Jiffi, James Aios hitve .bpeiied the way to: stic'h' an Mfiderstandini, and the op- ■ pm-tranity 6i placing .'the rna'ttcr on .a cien.nite fbotipg; should, not be .missed.