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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2965, 16 July 1891, Page 2

riKN'KV Gkokok, tlie high priest of the land nationalisation party, is suffering from a, singular mental disease. Ilis complaint is known as " aphasia," and the term denotes a loss of the ability to express ideas in speech, and sometimes in writing. The patient loses his memory of substantives, names, etc., and misapplies words and terms in a manner which renders his language unintelligible. The late Branson Alcot, whilst afflicted in a similar manner, made such curious mistakes as to apply the word "hogshead " for " stisrar." "chair" for "table," "house" for "man," etc. Noticing these peculiarities in himself, the chief of the land grabbers consulted a physician, who acquainted him with the nature of his malady. It can now bo understood ho v the Georgian philosophy originated : it owes its conception to a diseased mind, and this fact explains how the doctrine set forth in " Progress ani Poverty " —the immorality of which is so obvious to honourable men—came to be regarded as righteous by its author. As when Bronson Alcot asked for a " table " when he required a " chair," and requested to have a little more "hogshead" in his coffee when he wanted "sugar," so 111 like manner George, when he stigmatised a man who honestly purchases land as "a. robber," had, we can now believe, no intention of classing him other than as "au honest man." Likewise when he wrote of the confiscation of the land by tho State without compensating the present owners as being "just," lie, no doubt, intended to have termed it " downright robbery and when he says that liy seizing the land and by one stroke abolishing all private titles, declaring it public property, and letting it out to the highest bidder, they would bo " satisfying the law of justice," intended to class it (as any other man iu his right senses would do) as nothing more nor less than an act of "brigandage and pillage." Complete rest is required to restore Mr George's intellect to a healthy condition. This, we are glarl to notice, he is goiug to take. We sympathise deeply with Mr George in the malady that has overtaken him, and regret that the disease had attained so strong a hold before tlie painful fact dawned upon him that ho " was not all there."