RESTRAINT IN POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXV, Issue 10713, 5 July 1915, Page 4

RESTRAINT IN POLITICS.

It is a thousand pities that, alibis period of intense national anxiety, the newspapers of the Dominion cannot exeroisje restraint when dealing with political matters. The exhibition of bitter partizan prejudice that has been made by the "New Zealand Times," for instance, ia calculated to arouse i*he deepest re-

sentment Fortiuiatoly, that literary production readies only a circumscribed section of the community. Unfortunately, however, it has the reputation of expressing the views of the Opposition party in politics, and on this account its violent political outbursts cannot be allowed to pass without notice. We aro not going to defile our columns with detailed references to_ the recent remarks of the "New Zealand Times." It is .sufficient to say that they are of such a character as to arouse tho bitterest political passion amongst tho less intelligent bvt more easily excited isection of the community. Sir Joseph "Ward and his followers have ishown excellent taste in their treatment of public matters since the .opening of the session. But, unless they either restrain >or entirely disavow their literary mouthpiece, they will reader themselves liable to a charge of the grossest hypocrisy.