Loud Silence

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 303, 20 December 1922, Page 4

Loud Silence

For three <■ years we have sofferee from the garrulity of the Weltxrti League whose .'pronouncements and admonitions have been never-raiding; Upon, all sorts of subjects/; thii übiquitous organisation has exercised its mighty brain, .and day by;, day it has heaped upon us its powerful cogitations. The world is out of joixittand. our self-appointed men-tors m the' League have' slaved diligently to set' it right: *If extreme Labour, leagued with. Bolshevism, bade £a*r to. par-i alyse the Universe, the profiteers pur-< sued their wonted way with-unruffled calm .for was there not the Welfare League to warn the King's liegfes o£ the rascality of these dark and feffen.-" sive crews? In the morning and again at eve, the Welfare League talked and talked_ until, we thought that, like Tennyson's brdcli, it w-ould

go on forever. But peace has come at, last. There was an elect'on oii December 7, the results of whicfit were disturbing and unseemly. Hence a-loud'. silences. Not a word has the! League spoken either, to explain that what is is not, .or to vituperate the public for its waywardness. THERE IS A-REASON. May we, bored paJlid ■by the League's pronunciament.es, ristf the hope that the wUi continueCor. ever more?-