A VERDANT POLITICIAN.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1038, 19 August 1911, Page 4

A VERDANT POLITICIAN.

Mr L'. M. Isitt must be exceedingly : verdant if he imagines' that Ms remarkable utterances at the declaration df the poll in Ohristchurch convey anything like a true appreciation of the relative positions of the great political parties in this country. Mr Isitt would make it appear that the Opposition rarty is out to represent the Conservative, and the man of greed, while the. Government, which arrogates to itself the title of "Liberal,"- stands for government, "of the people, 'for the people, by the people.' If Mr Isitt had given, ©von a cursory istudy to recent events, ihe would have discovered that there is no closer connection between the present Opposition and Conservatism than there is between Royalty and the peasant. 'He would have discovered that the real Conservatives in New Zealand politics are those who are striving, at the sacrifice of every true principle of statesmanship and political honesty, to conserve office, and place, and power. He would have discovered, that, instead of being "of the people, for the people, by ihe people," the administration of the affairs of the country is at present, "of the .Ministry, for the Ministry, by the Ministry.". There is no .more Liberalise .'or DomoeracySaboUt the .WardAdmiiiistration than there, id aboitttho- Czar . of/' Russia'., : The true' Liberals, the" true' Democrats, the men who are for the people, dre 'those who,strive, by every ' lawful and legitimate process, to make theburden of 'the small man, the struggling .settler and the conscientious worker, the easier to bear. When Mr Isitt—the' verdant Mr 1 Isitt—has been a month in Wellington, and is initiated into the.devious 'by-ways of alleged Liberalism, he will come to realise 'that his estimation of things has been bas£d upon'a wrong conception of the relative positions of those occupying seats in Parliament.