COMIC POLITICS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2143, 8 May 1914, Page 8

COMIC POLITICS.

Sir,-Mr. T. M. WilMct,. .ft , ."flying squadron)st." yesterday even- ; jug was for two hours delivering here, f in Hinvera, what he. called "A Lecture . on tire Ways of lift form." The news . had spread that &. great fun entertaint iiient was ejected, and fun-bent, crowds , packed tJia Q.pitfa, Bouse-. 'i'lto "vis t Vomica," was superb, but ifes "vis pph--1 tfcsi" was insignificant. Tlier© was, I therefore, no opposition, and the audiB «nee bubbled. aver with iner'nrpen.t as i iokelet after jokelet was poured forth. . They lawghcd "heartily over "broody _ liens,' 5 "steslitig policies," "Hit! apoI the-osis of bally' btMiknm.,": "kerosene f tins," "pigs' trotters,'?."Mr.' Fisher's - tennis racquet" (whicli, of course, differs fram that of- .tho squadranist, ?H that there is no liole in. it), "carrot? s and turnips in soup," biHst boilers, nilina eggs, fabulous boxes fall of nothing, j;et nit bearing "titles" !a very word in' such a connection' - but this must have been a slip o|. tlio "Sinwdrojijst"). At. other time's, 6 adopting the cheap-jack role,, with ap--0 iSTopriato attitudes, lis would cry; • "Hero, I'm going to prove it. I 'can e prove every Statement I wake." The 0 final appeal was: "Will you give mo ft r message to tftka to Wellington? Will h you help toe? Will you help flic?" o I!ut what the help was to be, whether {[ in securing the Premiership or iii. $ciik a (itlie.r equally improbable project did not) J; appear. • "Yes, yes,'' of course, arose all over tho hull, ami the aUdientn dis-; norsed, none the ivlscr, yet all agrcei, iug that a good entertainment had k-mi. .o Kivtm them, Oiip ctoiiot give- $oa the o whole lecture on.' 'tlie "Ways of Jte H iorni." for, without the "Ways of Wili.. fowl." it wouVi.be like olio of the empty ;e boxes so lucitßy described. n From Snta.vdroiust Isi'tt wo bave it learned that politics is ipfioraivee and j> abuse: from Squadronist Atmnro. tliafc i, politic,g is spiicuilness; and from Sijttad's ronisi Wilfffrd, that politics is comical, o Let. us have. Wilford again. , but wo st don't wftut Isitt or Atmore. and their o verbosity, It seems hopeless to expect that the Opposition can Send round anyone who can instruct us. seriously ovt ?b • the policy of tb&. parly. ' .That policy :s is 3io doubt a pretended 3*f tisinc for tlio party to boast "bout e- whilst unknown, lint sure to fall as t- fiat as t'no Rre.it secret brought from 'a England by our Baronet &s sOon as the le said Bart. piiils. it down'ltts sleeve.—l ig am, etc., M- MUCH ENTERTAINED, '■& tiawera, Slay 2, IDI4. ii* • ih ■