HOT ON THE GOVERNMENT

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 16 October 1914, Page 4

HOT ON THE GOVERNMENT

Now that the elections are close at hand, the squatter's organ is beginning to display some activity in the service of it; matters, in the forlorn hope of | bolstering up an unpopular cause. Its i methods, to which the people have [ become thoroughly accustomed, are I eminently characteristic. One device is to wave the Red flag, with the object of alarming the timid, and incidentally creating the misleading impression that progressive Liberalism means anarchy. Another is to abuse Sir Joseph Ward, misrepresenting his actions and motives' and endeavouring to prejudice the' minds of the ill-hiformod against him. These methods have been made to do duty so often. \y. default of sound political argument, lhal they ava becoming played out. The public comprehend the game. They have been deceived once, when the chief battle-cry was for an immediate examination of the' pigeon-holes, but I they are not likely to>be deceived again. | For two years they have waited patient- ! ly tor the contents of t-i-j pi jeo:i-ho!os. '' only to mili:-v in the end iliat this was ' aii unpnncipk-d device- to discredit an | honourable public map. and that the ; huntings shui'!e:s were as baseless as \ they w,<re scandalous. — Wellington | '■j'ost." ' I