THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1909. THAT INDIGNATION MEETING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3214, 14 June 1909, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1909. THAT INDIGNATION MEETING.

Though the indignation meeting which has been convened for tomorrow evening, in the Wellington Town Hall, ir. connection with the adjournment of Parliament, will no doubt express the opinion held by a very large number of.people throughout the Dominion, its political value will not amount to much. In a few days Sir Joseph Ward will have left for Home, and in a few days more the meeting of Tuesday next will have clean passed out of public remembrance, and in the future, if mention be made of it, we shall no doubt be told by Government members that it was engineered by Wellington members, who ere afraid of their own shadows, at the behest of dissatisfied civil servants. "Delay defeats equity," is a legal maxim, equity being justice in the sense of the maxim, and notwithstanding that the people of New Zealand are justified in protesting at the Premier's action, d--lay has defeated any good, or the securing of any justice, that might arise through agitation The Opposition has not for many ysars been well organised, in fact most painful disorganisation has been a glaring feature in Oppositioli tactics, and does not appear to be any improvement in the respect mentioned, even with an increase in party numbers in the House. Indignation at the prorogation of Parliament is not, surely, confined to the city of Wellington only? If this be the case, it is, indeed, most extraordinary, and we may as well assume therefrom that the peopb of Wellington are the only people in the Dominion to take an intelligent interest in politics, and are, consequently, the only electors who are entitled by their virtue to have represpntatives in Parliament. We refuse to believe any such, absurdity, as, of course, everyone else does. The fact that the Opposition has lost a great opportunity is most palpable, and the reason thereof is not the fault of the public, or of any section of it, but is simply due to lack of cohesion in the Opposition, party. Every electorate in the Province of Taranaki returned an Opposition member at the last General election, and :ine would think that the whole of Taranaki, at the present t me, would be a blaze of indignation, but it 'does not appear so

far that any special interest in the prorogation of Parliament has been exhibited in the Taranaki Province. Instead of having one meeting in Wellington, the Opposition party should have organised meetings throughout the Dominion. Such a course of action would probably have materially assisted the party in its objects, but the meeting in Wellington, as we have said, will be a valueless affair. If by a number of meetings it had been seriously impressed upon the country what the whole position is, in connection with the Dreadnought offer, and the postponement of Parliament, the people of the Dominion would have had a few political facts brought home to them in a striking manner, and at a time when their vetfy necessities are compelling them, in a f good many instances, to display less apathy as to the trend of politics.