MR. MAXSE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8354, 14 February 1913, Page 6

MR. MAXSE

It will bo seen from our cable news this morning that Mr L. J. Maxso has fallen foul of a British Parliamentary Select Committee, and has been reported to the Speaker. Mr Maxso is a very interesting gentleman. At all events he is a most entertaining writer. He edits the rabidly anti-Liberal “National Review,” a monthly compendium of Tory thunder like unto nothing else we know. The “National’s” “Episodes of the Month” make exhilarating reading, if only for the wealth of adjectival expression they reveal. No such stuff could flow' from any pen but Mr Maxse’s, though we have frequently observed imitations in the columns of the New Zealand squatters’ organ. Every Liberal is clearly revealed by this prolific inventor of vitriolic phrase to be at least a political scoundrel, if not in all other respects a scamp. Every member "of the British Ministry is described as a demagogue of tho demagogues. The First Lord of tho Admiralty is, in the choice language of Mr Masse, a “mountebank,” tho Chancellor of tho Exchequer (of course) a “wrecker” ol the worst possible sort, the Secretary for War a “dangerous Radical,” the Prime Minister a “disgraceful timeserver,” and so on. An article in the “Daily News and Leader” or m the “Westminster Gazette” (this may act like balm on certain wounded feelings to-day) is invariably brushed aside by Mr Maxse as “wicked rubbish” written for the pay of tho “Radical plutocracy.” But space is too valuable for us to give more than a brief outline of Mr Maxse’s inexhaustible vocabulary of obloquy. Ho needs to be read to be appreciated. Mr Maxse is aptly described in a current biographical work as “a master of invective.”