SILLY SUGGESTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 9 December 1913, Page 4

SILLY SUGGESTIONS.

Some of the newspapers of the Dominion are maEing the absurd suggestion that because resolutions deprecating the recent "stonewall" were passed at the invitation of the Secretary of the Reform League, they should not have been sent through the' Press Association, as they possess 110 significance. Let us see what happened recently at Palmerston Worth, and Hastings, and elsewhere P The "Flying Squadron" of the Opposition was invited by prbminent members of the Party to v:sit these townships and make speeches. The resolutions in each case were carefully prepared, and were, of course, "carried unanimously." The Press Association was freely availed of to chronicle the doings and sayings of these political wind-bags, and to record the resolutions passed. It might just as wpll be argued that these "faked" resolutions and "faked" gatherings should have been given no publicity, as to suggest that resolutions passed by public bodies (even at the invitation of a political partisan) should he suppressed. It is the resolutions themselvesv that havd stung, and no side-tracking will make ftxe sting less unpleasant to the Opposition.