OPPOSITION BLINDNESS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 17 December 1913, Page 4

OPPOSITION BLINDNESS.

Wo do not suppose that anybody possessed of a sense of right and wrong takes much notice of what the N.Z. Times—the principal mouthpiece, of the discredited "Liberals"—has to say about things political. That paper has been so violent in its denunciation of everything and everybody connected with the Reform Party, that it's criticism—if. such it may be termed—has developed intß a mild form of dementia. It is, perhaps, more to be pitied than blamed. The cause that it is espousing is so hopelessly out of touch with public

opinion that it is in a perpetual stato of convulsion. Is there any, wonder, therefore, that in its desperation the poor old thing should sum up 'the work of the past session with the remark that, "None of the principal pledges of the Government have been redeemed except those concerning the freehold bribe!" The Times may be politically blind. It may not have a'etrue conception of the meaning of a pledge. It may be so familiar with the methods of "bribe" tha't it cannot understand legislation being designed for any other purpose. But really, it should not exhibit its organic defects in so clumsy a, mahnj>r. It should go out and take a, walk. The atmosphere in which it exists is altogether too depressing.