INVECTIVE.
tHE EDITOR OF THE PRESS - ■ " interesting article on above subject in ,your issue of Sat/s?*?#?,. calls to mind a little outburst i'f against his great opponent, Ewart Gladstone. I. think it |s3Witt.''the House of Commons, where w'a ß .replying to some stinging criti||pi®lß, 'tliat "Dizzy" said in his most fflJ®Ui3iloquent manner:—"Whom would to govern your country—a the confidence and favour SmS, $s Sovereign; or a sophistical rheto- ' ..^P el s ) riated with the exuberance hi# own • verbosity and gifted with C ?' mistical imagination that can at demean his opponents and IV^teify;] bimself V\ curious to reflect that BisjTown successor in th'e Conservaftewierahip (Lord Salisbury),, in fgv'.tfibute to Gladstone on the fatflfltirement from public life de(the G.0.M.) as possessing
tho service of tho State since Parliamentary government began." A wonderfully generous opinion , expressed with such excellent brevity—Yours, etC '' !' ANGLO-NEW ZEALANDER. September Ist, 1930-
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20022, 2 September 1930, Page 13
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