Parliamentary Wit And Wisdom!

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 42, 6 June 1913, Page 3

Parliamentary Wit And Wisdom!

If it hurts you to hear the ) prohibition side of the question, you ought to g<> outside. 1 intend to hurt you more severely later on (Auckland East). Little kegs are carried home i i big sacks (Premier). What’s gooil enough for m ought to be good enough for my youngsters (Hawke’s Bay). The big guns of the oppositi >n are loaded to-night, loaded to the very muzzle with newspap r cuttings (Orua) As ministering angels ami - members of the gentler sex. I adore the ladies: as politicians. 1 laugh at them (Orua). If the confusion that characterises the arguments from h Government benches is due t > the interjections of the member tor Hawke’s Bay. then he is guilty indeed (Temuka). The drinker of tins generation produces a crop of lunatics in tlie third generation (Auckland East). Between ail Irishman and ■promwell there is no love lost • (Temuka)This is an age of sh >rt cuts : the introduction of the Bible i it s State Schools is expected to promote a juvenile religious reformation, and by nv* ms of prohibition there will, it is confidently asserted, b* provided a short cut, by taking which, poverty, misery, lunacy, vagrancy, and all the ills to which the social system is heir, will be driven from the world, leaving a sinless Eden in which there will he no serpent and no temptation (Thames).