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Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15309, 31 March 1914, Page 6

Probably it is not only ",n Russia that religious impostors, claiming to preach virtue and celibacy under the characters of St. Peter and Tying Solomon, would attract adherents. King Solomon is certainly the last person whom one would expect to find associated with the idea, of celibacy, but when it is desired to attract converts for a new belief, nothing is lost, frequently, by making it as preposterous as possible. America has many religious sects which could not afford to laugh at these Russian incongruities, and a recent writer in the "Spectator" on the three great bogeys (to different people) of the Jews, Freemasonry, and the Jesuits, stated that he had found cases, though they were not frequent, in which all three were magnified as objects of extreme dread by the same people.

Mr ~W. H. Field, who represented Otaki in the House of Representatives continuously for eleven years as a supporter of Mr Seddon and Sir Joseph Ward, and will stand as an Independent at tlie next election, expressed Ms views of the present Government to a Weliing--ton "Evening l Posr J representative last week. " When I entered Padiamoit over fo-crieen. years ago," 1 Mr Fieid, "I i<2ZLecL xhs liberal Bzxzj, then led by zbe late Mr SeddsL At risat nag -die Onpcsitica ass, to a very large extisnu a. CoEserraxivebody, fc: as tfce years hscFe goaae fey xbeir policy becooe rseerdy xbe «2£erfip.ee :-t:~s-£r; -be soes bis seei largely de ci" ieioersii.b. wi-isly tbeir rvrspecssre pcisrJs raay <Sv=rge ri tie fjrtnre rearsss fro be sesu _!!!» -Lioiral poiSry i= ss jfci rEEsciosei ... Mr Msssey bcMs -broad sec. libers! Tie-ars. He-has..--adopted. sisd to sesse exrsit farther developed.. tbe L£>eral —eaters 5 of preTiccs GorercEseits, sad I trcs* tlia." be mO. adhere to this ccsrse.*' Mr Field stated thsi he hsd been '"'keeping 1 a close watch on political developments s*— 5 * — hence no doubt Ms present views. If Mr Field had nursed his prejudices and kept «his eyes shot ro all the facts of the Government's progressivenessj he might have disliked and misunderstood Mr Massey as much to-day as he did a dozen years ago. He Is still too kindly disposed towards his own party to say why the Liberal policy is undisclosed.