THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. WHICH KING?

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10620, 27 April 1912, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. WHICH KING?

Tho Prime Minister, speaking somewhere in tlie North a few days back, said that lie "could not see that the people Avero looking for Mr Massey at .all." Who, then., are the people looking for? Arc AJhey looking to be led out <rf .the wilderness by the 'Hon. T. Mackenzie? Have tliey any confidence in a leader avlio turns topsy-turvoy Avhenever the Avlhim suits h:an ? Did the country declare at tho polls in. December lasst that it was tired of Sir Joseph Ward, a,nd M>r .1. A. Millar.,. , and l Sir Jvinios Carroll, but that it would be .pleased to tfali .into the arms of such saviours as- the 'Hon. T. Mackenzie, and the Hon. (!. W. liivs-seJl.', and tibe Hon. Mr FI-l Y Does the ■Prime Minister seriously assert that the voice of the people Mas -against the Ward Ministry, but not against I those who declared themselves sup- I ■porters of that Ministry ?' How ran the Mackarizie Ministry go ba:'k upon the policy enunciated' by ,S : ,r Josopb Ward, when that policy was affirmed and re-affirmed* by th ; < "liberal" members, of the House? If the Hon. T. Mackenzie intends pursuing tho policy outlined in the Governor's Speech in tho short session of Parliament in February, how comes it that bo eta tea that the country w.int-s a legislative ground is the opinion based'that a legislative rest is 'required? Are

.Messrs El], and RimseH, and Han an |favourable to the "rest cure"? No. The true position of affairs is that the Liberal party, or t/hoee .parading as Hudi, were discred ted at tlhe polls. Not only was the Ministry discredited; the whole of the party was plainly told tliat a c'hange was wanted. If the -people are not looking for Mr Massey, w'lio are they looking for? Obviously /they are not looking for Mr Mackenzie, because he -was one of the Ministry which was discredited. By his, conduct, Mr Mackenire would have /us believe that it was not the liberal Party, but the 'Administration to which the country took exception. And so lie has thrown overboard every Minister in the. old Cabinet. In so many words, the people are told that (there was only one Minister in the ■old Liberal Cabinet who was -worth ibis sal*, and that Minister was the Hon. T. Mackenzie, There was nothing wrong with life administration, or he, too, mast have gone. But the Hon. A. Myers 'has far greater administrative ability than the Hon. J. A. Millar! The Hons. Ell, Laurcnson, and Rlussell, and McDonald and Hanan are pearls of wisdom compared with such nondescripts as Sir James Carroll, Messrs Buddo, R, McKenzie, and tbe rest of them! In. point of '(fact .the country was mot tired of mock Liberalism, .but of weak Libeir-a-ls. And now it dins what it was looking for. It has a Ministry wfhich is "all things to all men." It 'has a Cabinet composed of prohibitionists 1 and brewers, freeholder© and lcaso'holders, Conservatives, Radicals, anything and everything! What more could the people want? Was it Mr ■Massey that itfhe people were looking for ? No! Was it Sir Joseph Ward ? No! Then who was it? It was the Hon. Thomas Mackenzie, member for Egmont!