CURRENT TOPICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1917, Page 4

CURRENT TOPICS.

LOSING CONFIDENCE. a 2L Lytt f f" TimDS ' which Ilas ten » whoie-souJed.supporter of the Nationublfc m,St 7,' * SICta to realis « 'hat ^ enCß in the Government is neakenmg." Our contemporary i, of opinion that there i s plenty of loya "Wort available if Ministers will \X!I ! M u in Ul ° l ,resent conditions nobody who has a tolerable acquaintance Lnnr r° Plm ° n <*" d ° Ubt «»lt the general feeling is one of disappointment not unmixed with impatience The frnTn^r' 01 ! £ sa >' : " The la *t ballot rom the Lirst Division is now proceedvni t, a Weeka tho mar ™<l men .11 be required. They are expected to be now putting their private affairs in older in anticipation of the country's call let they are kept, quite unnecessarily and oxasperatingly long, in a state of suspense as to what the country is <r o . ing to do for their families. And while this grave anxiety continues, and is aggravated by the Government's apparent desire to put off the financial duty by enlisting boys, the men of the Second Dmwo,, share the general injury and injustice of seeing enormous profits freed irom taxation, while a duty is placed upon tea and the cost of living increase" every day. What is the matter with the Government? Wo very much fear ■that, lacking unity, it cannot make up its own mmd concerning large, important subjects awaiting treatment. Not without great reluctance are we forced to that conclusion.