A DILEMMA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 29 November 1910, Page 4

A DILEMMA.

I When the Commission was set up to investigate the charges made by the } member for Stratford, the Ministerial journal in Wellington asserted that there must be one of two results following the finding of the Commission. . Either Mr Hine must retire for ever into political obscurity, or the Government must go out of office. Which course . does our Ministerial friend now suggest for adoption? Can it, in face of the verdict given, demand the :retirement of Mr Hine? If it can, it is significant that, so far, it has failed to do so. Will it accept the alternative, and insist upon a Government which treated with contempt the charges of the member for Stratford 'being sent about its business? It has not the courage to do this. The Ministerial journal is devoting every bit of its ingenuity just now to proving that the Government was in no way responsible for any of the improprieties disclosed by the evidence placed before the Commission. There was, it says, no "Tammanyism" on the part of the Government. But that is not the point. The Government took up a certain stand in regard to the Hine charges, and the Ministerial journal left it no loophole but to resign if the verdict went in Mr Hine's favour. It will be interesting to watch further developments from the inspired journal. It appears to be hanging in a limp sort of fashion just now from the horns of a dilemma.