REVOLUTIONARY REACTIONARIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3037, 6 November 1908, Page 4

REVOLUTIONARY REACTIONARIES.

Sir Joseph Ward, we see, claims that the Government hold the position of the safe and happy medium between the "revolutionary reactionaries who would not move at all" and "their revolutionary friends on the other hand who would play up Old Harry in politics and dictate a disastrous policy for New Zealand," states the Christchurch "Press." Who are the "revolutionary reactionaries" referred to we are at a loss to divine. Sir Joseph cannot mean Mr Massey and his friends, beause these, as we have shown, are desirous of moving forward in various directions, while the Ministry's great anxiety is to try the "rest cure." The revolutionaries who, in Sir Joseph's picturesque language, would "play up Old Harry with our politics" are more easily identified. They are the politicians of the Laurenson, Barclay, and James Thorn type—the Vicar Graysons of! New Zealand. They have already expressed their preference for the Government as against the Opposi- 1

tion, because the former are more "squeezable." Sir Joseph wanto to steer a middle course now, because Ministers see that there is a reaction in the country against the extremists.