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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3874, 31 July 1891, Page 2

Aftbb all it was a queer performance at the Theatre Royal on Wednesday evening. Single Tax Bill, Socialist Earnshaw, and Knight of Labour Hogg made quite a variety troupe. Each had his own little part on his own little lines, and each endeavoured to outdo the other in political burlesque. We are indebted to Single Tax Hill for the brilliant idea that the existing depression is caused by the working man paying too much beer duty, and we can safely hand this callow cackler over to our Prohibitionist Editor for correction. To Mr Earnshaw belongs the merit of openly avowing himself a Socialist, a title which his friend Mr Hogg warmly resented when it was applied to him on a certain occasion. We may presume that the member for Masterton, judging by his associates, is now more sympathetic towards Socialism than formerly. The pei feet politician of the future will no doubt be a fusion of Messrs Hill, Earaabaw and Hagg, a single taxer, a socialist, and possibly a dynamiter. It was an emissary of a Wellington trades union who once declared to us that a little dynamite would be useful as a final argument, and if the

district organiser of tbe Knights of Labour objects to such a weapon being referred to we cannot help it. A Secret Society may be run in perfectly peaceful and lawful lines, but on the other hand it may not. How are the uninitiated public to know ? At anyrate we, ourselves, were indebted for the dynamite idea to a prominent unionist who on one occasion was sent on a Bpecial mission to this district.