MELANCHOLIA AND INSOMNIA.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 October 1913, Page 4

MELANCHOLIA AND INSOMNIA.

The New Zealand Times, that extraordinary combination ©$ blasted hopes and sour disappoint'nent, which ha/3 gained for itself the notoriety of ber ing the world's champion in unearthing political "mare's nests," things that the Age is bordering upon melancholia and insomnia because it expresses anxiety concerning local government reform. The Age is not, as the Wellington "screacher" suggests, a supporter of the Tory Government. Thia paper has just as profound a contempt for Toryism as it ha* for socalled "Liberalism." It is b**nd to no party. It is not subsidised by either brewers c# No-license adviooates. It does not support the Refonn Government because it combines all the virtues. But it has a very deep cioncern for the welfare of the peoplej and possesses a soul above party,, politics. The ''Liberal" administration had worked out its awn destruction by those acts of patronage and expediency which had grown into its political marrow-bones. Like "humpty-dumpty," it had a great fall, and all the King's horses and all the King's men will never put it together again. The Age has given a general support to .the Massey Government because at believes that Government possesses vitality, and is inspired by national ideals. _ But when the Reform party makes mistakes and gets off the track, this paper will not be found failing in the duty it owes the-public. We are not melancholy, but we plead guilty to being wideawake. Some newspapers are afflicted with somnabulism rather than insomnia.