HE "DAILY HERALD " AND THE ‘` SPECTATOR."
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Ssa,—In your article " Fair Play for Labour," you said that Mr. Seddon, the first Socialist Prime Minister of New -Zealand, was noticeably less dangerous in office than he had been on the platform. The Daily Herald commenting on this said, " Mr. Seddon never was a Socialist." I certainly thought that he was, though, as you remarked, when he was Prime Minister he did little to justify the fears of his opponents. I turn to the Dictionary of National Biography, and in the Supplement to that work I find that Seddon " joined the Young New Zealand Reform Party, supported the great shipping strike of 1890, and advocated State ownership and State Socialism generally." The D.N.B. is not likely to be wrong. Will the editor of the Daily Herald explain ?—I
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