A DISSOLUTION.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 18 March 1914, Page 2

A DISSOLUTION.

The journal which is owned and edited by Mr Russell, the most strenuous fighter on the Liberal side, has confessed to a great fear of impending dissolution. He thinks evidently that the government must see that things, are favourable for a trial of strength before the constituencies which at present do not furnish them with an electoral majority whatever may be the case in Parliament. First there is the of the strike quelling which is still fresh and counts for much. Next there is the disunion of the other side. The Labour Party is split to pieces and the pieces will not coalesce. But this state of things may not continue. The Social Democratics have issued a manifesto in which they repudiate emphatically all alliance with the liberals whom theydespise and with the other, labour sections whom they will hate as long as they continue apart from them. The United Labour party, a considerable fraction of labour, does not view the Liberal alliance with too much favour," wanting to fix up things for election purposes only, but a vast crowd of Liberals refuse utterly to be satisfied with that state of things which means that labour will support them until it sees a chance to dictate and throw out if it thinks proper. Such alliance they know and rightly would be suicidal anft foolish, besides-affording no chance of progress in the direction they prefer. The fact is that Labour is spli* up into irreconcilable factions striving for the same extreme and impracticable goal which some people call the millenium and others deride in various keys of condemnation. The leaders are imperfectly educated persons whd are full of catchwords of which they do not know the meaning and glibly quote principles which to them are axioms, but to the thinking public they appear the stock in trade of the charlatan. It is a good time for Reform to ask for a dissolution. Why not ask for it at once.