PERIPHRASTIC BOMBAST.
Thekk was a time and not .so very long ago, when (ieorge Fisher, Esq., was a mighty atom in the political ladder in <juick stride*, and hecatnu Minister of Education in the Atkinson Ministry, The height attained by the astute (teorgy Fisher dazzUnl him for a moment, and in that luckless minute his influence and power began ut wao*». His jxditica' chief (tooted him out of the Ministry, and ever since Mr Fisher lim lived upon his Ministerial honor. •' When I was Minister of Education," ha.s been ihe stock phrase of George Fishei, hut in spite of all bis efforts in 1 Wellington City refused to en trust him with its eoutuleiietj. The aac« mighty atom ui the »uec*Bd-
ing years tried all manner of means to keep himself well before the electors, but his most serious efforts were met with ridicule. Mr Fisher then tried a double shuffle, and by appealing to the political charity of his friends and acquaintances, and by shameful apostacy, was at the last general election dragged out of the political gutter and given the proverbial " one more chance." Mr Fisher is M.H.R. again and we are not to forget the fact, for in a letter to the New Zealand Times, he gives a minatory shriek, " They will be made to understand. And by me." There is all the vigor and zeal of an apostate, but Mr Fisher's periphrastic bombast is useless, it will avail him nothing. He still imagines himself the mighty atom, but this is not the estimate in which he is held by the general public. Pie is simply George Fisher given another chance. But Mr Fisher's threats are interesting for he promises to give the details of alleged bygone scandals—concerning other people. When he is "on the job " as another gentleman expressed himself, we hope he will disclose to the world the reasons why Sir Harry Atkinson bustled him out of the Ministry, and then he may reasonably shriek, "At last justice is mine." Mr George Fisher as a politician is like a spiked gun of no value to those who own hi in.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 270, 13 March 1897, Page 2
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355PERIPHRASTIC BOMBAST. Hastings Standard, Issue 270, 13 March 1897, Page 2
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