FRITZ'S FRIENDS.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 957, 14 November 1918, Page 4

FRITZ'S FRIENDS.

Straight Talk to Mr. Holland, rjnHE member for Wellington Suburbs -™- is usually a man of moderate views and equally moderate speech., a quiet, sensible man who knows how to hold his tongue, but who, wlien he does speak, is generally worth listening to. Mr. Wright's warm reproof of the extraordinary attitude assumed by the Bolshevik members for the Grey and Wellington Central was, though severe, thoroughly well merited. Mr. Wright did not beat about the bush when taking exception to Mr. Holland's curious and certainly most unpatriotic views with regard to the treatment of enemy aliens in this country. "He has done more," said Mr; Wright, "than anyone I know to assist the enemies of our country. That is the real fact. It is well to lay the cards on the table." After the mischievous and positively sickening nonsense —and worse than nonsense—talked by Mr. Holland and by his fellow Bolshevik, the priggish, pragmatical young Socialist who says ditto to the member for the Grey, Mr. Wright's reproof was distinctly and refreshingly welcome. A little more of this straight talk is exactly what is needed by the egotistical ajid egregiously conceited pair, and Mr. Wright deserves every credit for having boldly and openly expressed in the House what members were saying in' the lobbies.

Mr. Holland; we notice with some amusement, hinted the other night that he might resign his seat to mark his protest against Mr. Massey being out of the House. Of course, this is all "guff," for this political carpet-bagger from Broken Hill knows very well that if there were another election in the Grey to-morrow the chances are that he would be left out in the political cold. As to his anxiety about Mr. Massey being in the House, it is more than probable that before the session is over he will be wishing, the Prime Minister anywhere else in the world except in the House. For some of these fine days Mr. Massey will administer a verbal castigation to this Bolshevik compared with which even Mr. Wright's straight talk would be mild indeed.