"SEEING RED"

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 301, 6 December 1922, Page 3

"SEEING RED"

By ".QUIZ2."

' Gin , contemporary, the. '"Evening B , Post," .is realiy rather funny . some times (quite 'unconsciously, of course). In spite oi! the King's personally ex- „ pressed wish that all these tilings & shall be kept out of politics, he drags in "The Tit rone," "The Empire," "His Excellency Lord Jeliicoe, his Ma"jesty's'representative," all OSTENSIBLY a apropos of the Annual Communication of the Masonic Grand Lodge of _' N.Z.! p The REAL PURPOSE of the sub- ~. leader in question is, of course, a po~ -p litical one. To be quite plain, it is just a "dig" at the Labour Party," a mean little" "iast-hour" attempt to do ' a us sonic damage. The tiling is badly " written and not even "put. together " grainmatieally. The- "change over" ■•■■ from his. Excellency, to "the better " 'oie" is .'quite a comical "break." Til---, poor man who wrote the sub--5 leader is quite desperately anxious 1 that we should ali emigrate en masse 1 to Russia. No doubt he would lilce to 1 DEPORT us all. before the 7Lh. " After asking us quite- ■ pit?oi!Sly, t "why we DON'T GO?" he brings out this gem of composition: — "So far as those who are genuinely L loyal to the Throne and Empire, but .do not necessarily wear their hearts • upon their sleeves, they are content : to remain so, and New Zealand is good . enough for them. They feel.it their duly, each in his or her own way, that , their task is to make things bstter k even better than they are, for others ' and themselves." For bad composition and 'involved-' ness," I think this would be hard to beat. But this is the "gem of the whole collection": — ! i "For those who see RED- in every- ' I thing" (the capitals are mine), "who 1 are consumed with suspicion as with a i fever—well, the door o is open, and Russia (again!)-.the country of• their realised dreamsj is • a great and room.v country (very true). Those at present in power there ask no allegiance to Throne and Empire." (How can. they, having neither?) That "SEEING RED" is quite delicious! For these people to tell us that we are "SEEING REED and consumed with suspicion" is really "putting the boot on the wrong foot" with a vengeance! One can only conclude charitably that the writer had just come in from a political meeting, where he had heard come home truths that -jna.de HIM SEE RED!