Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, MAY 8, 1911. THE OUTS AND THE INS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10231, 8 May 1911, Page 4

Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. MONDAY, MAY 8, 1911. THE OUTS AND THE INS.

Although the member for Wairarapa failed on Friday night to present oven -the shred of an Opposition policy, ,he succeeded in demonstrating that during last session, at anyrate, .the Government and the Opposition were at one on most of the cardinal •measures which were introduced. The Defence Act, the Grimes Act, the Education Amendment Act, the National Provident Act, were all measures which, according to Mr Buchanan, met with the general approval of the Opposition. The only great national issue.upon which the two parties 'were not agreed appears -to have been the Land Act, and as this was 'dropped, apparently out of for the feelings of the I Opposition, no harm was done. It would be interesting to know, at the present juncture, just where Mr Massey and (his followers stand. T»hey have no policy to submit to the people, or, if they have, they are too nervous to disclose it. In- this respect they are no better and no worse than the Government, which has obviously run to the end of its political tether. If the Opposition can present no better case than that presented by Mr i Burihiaman on Friday night, it can hardly hope to succeed at the polls. People are not -likely to change : horses until they are satisfied that .they 'are abandoning the weak for the strong. It is an easy enough matter to find holes in the garment cf the Government. The whole fabric is fi:ll of holes and patches. What the c-ntry requires, however, is something better. Suneiy there is suflfW<=h.t originality, sufficient constructive ability in the Opposition ranks to provide a presentable

ibill-of-fare. Why does Mr Massey not com© out with a bold and attractive land policy? Why does he not devise a scheme whereby the Grown and Native lands would be made ■ .available to the people? Why does he not submit proposals which, will make for economy in the administration of the public works fund? Why does lie not place before the electors a corrective for the existing anomalies in taxation ? Why does he not suggest means whereby the raili ways would be managed on business i lines? Why does he n#t disclose a method whereby the cost of living I could be reduced and tiie homes of the masses be made brighter and ■happier ? Why does he not show the people how they are being sweated to maintain a .system of patronage and extravagance, and tell them how this may be avoided? The coun<try is tired unto death of the spineless, vacillating, hypocritical makebelieve which dominates the Dominion at the present moment. It has had enough of the "Continuous Ministry." It wants a peep into the pig-eon-JiolcS. It desires a washing-up of the linen and red-tape which have been accumulating in the biggest wooden building in the world during ! the last twenty years. Will Mr I'"s----t sey and his party set to work in [ earnest to repair the leaks in our Parliamentary vessel? Or will they leave the task for others who are less competent but more eager to do the work ?