DOES PATRIOTISM PAY?
TO THI KDITOB. Sib A short time ago Sir Robert Stout entered the lists as the champion of those who denied that Judge Edwards s appointment was either legal or constitutional. In olden days knights used to ]oust for glory alone. Not so in these times. The “ Laborer is worthy of his hire is one text, at any rate, with which our astute countryman is familiar. I note he is to appear as counsel with the Solicitor-General to proceedings about to be instituted to test the validity of the appointment, That he will be well paid goes without saying. It is not given to everyone to serve his country and himself so happily. There is certainly precedent for the position precedent established by the learned counsel himself to the well remembered dummy proceedings, to which, I fancy, his fee book showed a larger credit balance than was taken out of it by anyone connected with the inquiry. To serve one’s country once—yea. even twice —upon such terms is almost too much.-I am, etc. , Apprendbb. Dunedin, May 4.
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Evening Star, Issue 8506, 4 May 1891, Page 3
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180DOES PATRIOTISM PAY? Evening Star, Issue 8506, 4 May 1891, Page 3
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