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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 18, 21 July 1893, Page 2

Truth is nothing if not trenchant. Apropos of Mr Earnshaw and his ' plucky attitude towards Mr rjeddon on the whiskey question, Truth says : •—With some of Mr Earnshaw's views, notably with his advocacy of so called Land Nationalisation, wo havo little or no sympathy. For his pluck and independence wo have v far greater admiration. Loathsome, mrdeed, is that slavish servility which leads many of our politicians to grovel at tho feet of mere men, while utterly indifferent to the mischievous nature of many of those men's measures. There are too many Liberal politioians, or politicians returned iv tbe Liberal interest, who are irresistibly suggestive of Lazarus waiting for the crumbs which may fall from the rich man's table, and who, as has been frequently shown, will sell their birthright, not for tbe traditional " mess of pottage," but for a few scraps of Governmental broken meats. " Party " is their fetish ; because " party" symbolises to them the pickings of the political dog-banket. Even Mr Eatnshaw, despite his spasm of independence, cannot muster sufficient grit to break away from the fetiah. He condemns the men who leal the party; he condemns their measures. Nevertheless he will, ho ' doclureß, stick to tho men and their measures for the sake of " party." Mr Earnßhaw has bucked a little, and the Ministry will probably offer him a handful of corn, a carrot, or a lump of loaf sugar to quiet him. Will bo accept