LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S EPITHETS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 7008, 3 May 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S EPITHETS.

The more rabid of our Australian legislators, reckless as they are in their charges and coarse in their language, have not yet descended to the level of Lord Randolph Churchill. The spectator says that LoM Raudolph Churchill almost outdid himself in tbe acurrilousuess of his speech at the Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, on the Egyptian policy of the Government. The Liberals, he said, "had wallowed ia a stifling morass of the moat degraded and servile worship of the Prime Minister;" they had "sunk below the level of slaves ;" had "become puppets, the objects of derision and contempt;" and had " lost all claim to the title of rationalhumanbeings." He exhorted his audience to " dash from Ms pride of place the evil and moon-struck Minister." He spoke of Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues as "men who have on their souls tbe blood of the massacre of Maiwand, tbe blood of the massacre of Laing's Nek, the blood of Sir George Colley, the blood of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke, of many oiher of the true and loyal subjects of the Crown in Ireland; the blood of Hicks Pasha and his 10,000 soldiers, the blood of the army of General Baker, the blood of Tewfik Bey and his 500 heroes. For four years this Ministry has literally waded in .blood; their hands are literally dripping and reeking with blood. From massacre to massacre they march, and their coarse is ineffaceably stamped upon the history of the world by an overflowing stream of blood. iHow many more of England's best and bravest are to be sacrificed to the Moloch of Midlothian?" If a Chartist has spoken thus, what a host of articles we should have had on the wickedness of such inflammatory balderdash ! In .Lord Randolph Churchill's mouth, however, it is not dangerous,—except to the aristocracy, whom, we are bound to say, it grossly ■misrepresents.