SOCIALIST "COMRADES."

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12256, 2 July 1909, Page 6

SOCIALIST "COMRADES."

MR. BERNARD SHAW'S OPINION OF MR. WELLS. Mr. G. H. Wells criticised the "wreckers'" of the Independent Labour Party in a roccnt issuo of the ."Christian Commonwealth." In the next week's issue of tho Fame paper Mr. Bernard Shaw gives his opinion of the novelist as follows:—

"Take all the sins of Mr. Wells ascribed to his colleagues'—the touchiness of Hyndman, tho dogmatism of Queleh, Blatchford's preoccupation with his own methods,, Grayson's irresponsibility—add every other petulance of which a spoiled child or successful operatic tenor is capable, multiply the total by ten, square the result, cube it, raise it to tho millionth power, and square it again, and yon will still fall short of the truth about Wells.

"Granted that all Wells' rudo remarks are true, what then He might as well say: "There are milestones on the Dover road, therefore I will go by Folkestone-Boulogne, as say: 'Hyndman is spiteful, Blatchford is vain, therefore I will go homo and write novels and not speak to any of them any more.'

"We are all vain; we are all spiteful. To complain of such things is to somplain that the leaves are green and the sky blue."