WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 2678, 11 August 1913, Page 5

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

The Prime Minister, with that tine air cl' injured innocence he assumes so easily is perpetually challenging his critics to “come out into the open” and say what they have to say, and they have “come out” again and again only to be greeted with cries of senseless derision. What more can his critics do? They have frankly staled all they know about the Garlick appoinmen», the Harbor Board, the Grey Lynn leases, and the Cheviot section, and the next move is clearly with the Government. If Mr Massey and his friends think they are best served by silence, that, of course, is their own affair. Their judgment may be right. —‘Lyttelton Times.’

Divided counsels and the lack of capable leadership have paralysed Liberalism in Parliament and country alike, and the party will have very little hope of recovering Its lost ground at the next General Election unless it can recognise its scattered forces, and sub mit itself to the guidance of an energetic commander-.in-chief. There is an unexampled opportunity waiting for such a Leader, and it is for Sir Joseph Ward himself to show if he is able to rally the bewildered and disheartened representatives around the Liberal banner.—Auckland ‘Star.’

If Mr Allen has, so it is hinted, not sufficient lime to attend to matters educational, the Government should introduce and pass a Bill providing for another Minister, who would take over the portfolio of Education, and who would be able to devote his whole official time to education matters, at present, so we fear, very much neglected.—Marlborough ‘Express. 1 * *

The people of New Zealand know that ths Government in power to-day are not only reactionary in their tendencies and determination, but they are also arrogant and autocratic, and hostile to the cause of popular rights and Wellington Time?,’