THE LINGERING OF MR LANG

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 729, 11 March 1926, Page 4

THE LINGERING OF MR LANG

It is very evident; that Mr Lang and his. Labour Cabinet- it should really he spelt Caucus—lag superfluous on tile political stage in the New South Wales Parliament. Mr Bang and his proposals have suffered more rebuffs and defeats during the past, two weeks than even the Briand Cabinet over in Paris. But Mr Bang has the epidermis of a rhinoceros. He does n ( )(_ know when he is beaten. He seems to think that he can dominate everybody nncl everything. If a 'member of Parliament 'votes against the Governent, the. Laboui Party straightway expels that mem-

her from its ranks. And this action on the part of the one group of politicians that boasts as its motto-, freedom ! Mr Lang sends forward a men. sure of a revolutionary nature, and because it is rejected' by the Lpper House lie seeks to abolish that chain*her. When lie fails in the effort to blow it to pieces, lie tries to swamp it by unreasonable appointments. He jjjots the appointments ,hut still iails to induce the chamber to commit suicide. What next? Why, lie tries to score with the other sex. With rare innocence (or is it cun rung?) lie applies to the Governor for| the. appointment of a batch of womf ? n members to the Upper Ijouse! Rut Admiral de Chair cannot see any valid reason.. for further overcrowding that chamber. Tie. refuses to sanction the appointments. Then Mr Lang and liis caucus became very angry, they yell by wireless to Downing Street to recall the Governor! YYhat a travesty of political amenities —what a reflection upon party government! Whom the gods would destroy, they first make angry—and the people do the rest. 'Die next stage will he the undoing of Mr Lang and his cohorts. An appeal to the country, and the Labourites will be swept out of oifiee, if not, out of existence. For Mr Lang seems to have, lost his head ami all sense of proportion, not being efficient enough to- recognise the line of tiemlrk-ation between reason and lolly. His end is Oblivion,