NEW ZEALAND'S PREMIER.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 300, 23 November 1912, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND'S PREMIER.

1 A libera:, appreciation. Lr.dcr lie* - Tr.i- Piainicr’s Hoi.n-'•uii.ibu'." the o Lowing i edito:tai i ri.p i t <>: Mr. Mas-| , sfCs achtiinr tn.. Ch appeared in the i i Dunedin 'Star" un Wednesday: la<> . . ... 'J ‘Mt <in iri it \ .n .C iced i‘ is not a; a. i: that inn be i against the N v. Zeahan I I ar! ‘it. it i.- i too .'bin ; to place Air. in' , -ii" with tils pit d< c- s'f.r- rti. I judge v.! < : l.fr iie attains t-. their -ti-.i-iai ’. 1 !l« • u>y o’- ma mt possess li.e -pint of di uivci ui i r-f< mi which actuated John Ballance. That re- ■ mains to be prose-i ; l.i.t v . oukl ba - a i;.. in alt i .dish to <;• n\ it before Mr. Mass*.;, i.a ■ I e> n M.<_-n fair op I» .anii'n os' d it.- in ia; nig it. mru not Late the donimatiiig per-.-onalits and v..U r * e.it!o< L L f ILeliaiti Stddoii : he niai in • etui line some i f tin* p> : .tiasi’.e gun of h-apii' Ward. But the country knows that, l.e ps.-i.-s - a pi -t : :. that iiai. n.o! the te i oi nrus of aJ•nrsitt. in.d a c<t:iagc undaunted In s< emiiig.p i..ptde-s aids. Till \ line < f Im !■ ng < : i<-. s ns leader i f l lie Opposition i- ijf ginning to bo i-i alised now that old opponents can find no one to i’ll the yosit ion. He exhibited air - a tine leenrion i ■.nd tiiiipr :n d<io ; '. Il guiiioi be • i.itiui f that : • : ’I- a i'> special ’ genius in n-'.. IL- -pm lilies an not .’lidos ent. and d> i.ot glow ; but tl.t;. ao ns tu'i ,sound J ( I-minn:on sei’se. Ti..* v<i> the di--' t i'lg’.ll-hli.g fei’i lie i f !•■- -precii in the Amkl’iiid down Hall Ia~; night. It a pi:i; ;'i...’no en J. I titisifr-in ran high. Fir the pas.], ■i‘tij'l.- of ; ■ ars ’(lppos.tion ra!lit ■’ s tin y ver” t.idtd. lir.e 'liwiii ■ t been inarkt d '.>v sonic Erth- cxiila ai'< e of ieeimg. At fn-st hope v.a-, 1! >■ i.iaihsn"n:g. tiitii . ■ •..ibw i'--: ; •tnd now it I- tih.iiioii. the cion it i-ofdisaCun —Mr. Ma-.a '. I:, ictur..

I cd to his home tl-’ranki.n is almost . an Auckland suburban constituency!; ; Prime Minister of Xcw Zealand at' j'ast. He had no electrifying mes-i y ago to give to the im.e>mg or thm Ir-oantry. but just a pla::i statement lof wha he considers to be his duty. j 'in outline cf th"t part which has ■ I'dready Bern performed and of that ‘ i which remains to be done, together s ' with a deelaratimi that it shall hip : i 1 -;no. .He <!i11 no I matc light of the I ita.sk ahead. There is a large and ■ f full programme for next sesricn, hp pays ; and in (.he meantime there ar<d permus difriculi iip tn be encountered ’ in the recess. Hi■; audience iiard'yi ioerdod io Ivo remi/d «;,f one o’i them. for the in dr st rin 1 ircnbli l wr-i y..i istersl fact at their very door: , j Tl’e 1" cderation of Labour Jotve : rar:s’?!anted ill* ir seedlings from • *\ ;::hi ' o Hrintiy and Auckland ; and -tpyarc stiy it was ■•!.:>' the astute iiu-tlc . of tiio police authorities tliap hire’.ented a crowd of “Red” sympa-l ■ thror? from taking a hand in the! in etir.g. or at least irom coming |

in‘o close contact with tiie Prime Minister. What satisfaction it would have been to the FcderaLionists to have <”mie fac-r’ to lace with Mr. JLoe-y is best known to ditmselves. Mr. Massey has many times shown that lie is not to be awed by numEt-rs. and the country lias firm confidence in his promisethat the law will lit’ carried cut fearlessly and impartially, without prejudice and without favet:;-. And that is precisely the function of any .and every Government —to see thai. the law is properly administered. Any citizen who professes to find in that declaration something obnoxious would do well to examine ;l:e fundament.-i’s ot his politica’ creed, and ascertain vhotlw they .'U'c based on the primary e’e-ments of true citizenship—a respect: :<>?■ lav, and order, and a convio ion that they must be i:ishe’d.