THE MASSES AND CLASSES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10410, 25 July 1912, Page 2

THE MASSES AND CLASSES.

The Argonaut states :~lt Is said that King George is bmio™ l * perturbed at the prospect of an estrangement between himself and the aristocracy of England, No one knows better than he that the Tory attacks npoa “his Majesty’s Ministers were actually directed] sgainbt .«w King, himself, and thalonly a thin political fiction saved position of a defendant fae pa ,s® counted upon direct aid from the monarch. He was sapposs to be one of ns,” and now their indignation at his official accuracy takasthe form of a sullen resentment, it is significant that a POP" I** 1 ** newspaper should speak of Hie K g as “conscious of his . . p °Vi ideal acumen” and look back with regret tol ttfer tact and diplomacy of King Edward, that would have saved the situation. King Edward, we are reminded, talked to everyone and read everything. To bo Informed was the secret of iris ctrength. In King George these virtues are replaced by a political accuracy that never reads a book "or a newspaper, hot only each portions ot either sis may do officially blue pencilled, that neves talks to any one esospt those whose official duty it Is to talk, and that is Inaccessible to everythlng’bntraguJarity and precedent. It was at the beginning of his reign that King George was unpopular among the, masses of the people. He seems now to have offended the classes.