THE VERY LATEST.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2148, 14 May 1914, Page 4

THE VERY LATEST.

The latest discovery in Waitlist circles is that the Keforra Party and the /'Red Feds" are after all i-eally the best friends in the world ami are happily united in itn endeavour to run the country to suit fcheit common ends. The .Social-Democratic Party, we arc told, is really an off. shoot of the Reform Party. This, perhaps, is quite as believable as many of the stories set in circulation in recent times by the gentleiroen who arc endeavouring to discover grounds for asking the public to ignore Sir Josetui Wakd's long suewssioa of failures as a political leader. But it cfces sneSi? to be jiresiimibg a little too ran oh on the ignorance of everyday people to ask them -to believe that the conduct of the Govcrniiieiik during the recent strike was a token

«f Ministerial sympathy with the ".Red Feds".; and is it hot rather ,a tall order to ask the public to swallow th« suggestion that tic "Uwt ; Feds" have been merely evidencing their sympathy with the Government by their valorous attempts to howl clown Ministers? And whiifc of that shitting light of Wnrdisni, Hn, J. A. Hasan, ex-Liberal Minister of the Crown, who sank his identity as an ornament of the'legal profession ifl order to,attend the lied Fed-Soeial-Dcmucrntit Cimfewiice last year in the humble guise of a delegate of the Hooliiinkers' Union', Perhaps wo shall be told that Its loft the Conferonce convinced that the "Red Feds" were Reformers in disguise. And •Mn. .P. Webb, and Mft.".lJoJiK«Tsns, and 11k. Pavsk. the. distinguished representatives of the Social-Dctnacra- J

tic Party in Parliament! They, too, presumably, arc in this deep-laid conspiracy a net were merely working with the Wavdists as "a blind," iincl concealed their ' icnl feelings all last ■ session Ijy consistsnUy _ attaching mid voting against the Government on every possible occasion. It is really a delightful story.this latest frru'l o"f the Wa-rdisls. We shall bo told directly that Mil HiCKEir, or Mn. T, W. Youso, has been secretly appointed organiser for the Reform Party, nnd that the Maorihim!- Worker is an orgau of (hated capital in disguise. -Meanwhile tin; public will not b.-ivo. vfli'y much iUfticii!t.y in understanding; why our Warciist friends arc so very anxious to disown the Itetl Federation. Siß Joseph Ward plainly must be finding the task of explaining nway his conduct during the .strike more difficult tjvm lie had anticipated. The cock-and-bull storisß with whiVili his friends arc endeavouring to hdn him out of his difficulties certainly a.dtl to tha humours of the political situation, but we fear_ they will also servo to impress still more dwply on the minds of ths public Sin Joseph Ward's unfortunate indiscretions at that very critical time.