ABOUT COALITION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 48, 26 June 1915, Page 4

ABOUT COALITION.

Wellington Evening Post editorially says : Much will bo said and written during the next few days about “coalition,'’ and there will he a demand that party feeling shall not hamper national work-. At present, the people see dimly in a haze and maze of theory and suggestion, out the bieez.es of the Address-in-11 eply debate should clear the air and give the people a fair view of the parties. Members of the Opposition have hinted that they have magnanimously refrained from criticising the Government’s admim--trution of the war work, and there an unmistakable hint that the Gov-, erument’s life is comparatively peace-' ful, merely by the mercy of opponents who are content with vague statements about alleged mistakes instead of formulating specific charges. The country should prefer to have straightout, clean-cut criticism, which may lie of a helpful kind, hut the people do desire definite statements. It would be better to have a frank and full discussion in Parliament on certain mat- , ters connected, directly or indirectly, with the war, than to have a semblance of silence in the open (in the name of “patriotism”), and semi-pri-vate or semi-public whispers of mismanagement. Such a debate would help tlio public, to form an opinion on

the merits of coalition proposals