SANDERSON'S "SCOTCH.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11113, 14 May 1898, Page 6

SANDERSON'S "SCOTCH.

Established 1846. Original blenders of Whisky in bond. David Baxter & Co.- Aeeats,

not want to be instructed, who really believed that. Ooe word in conclusion. They could naver have any true Liberalism that could be j divorced from love of liberty.—(Cheers.) . And j certainly they never could get any LibarAlism that could bear to be divorced from truth ami i uprightness in the administration of public affairs.—(Loud and prolonged eheera.) i A movement is on foot here to get Mr j Mackenzie to deliver another speeoh in Auckland, as a number of people were unable to j i attend last night at the: Choral Hal!. There ] lis a general ballet that the speech is calculated jto do good, both ns to the fact? adduced and ! illusions dissipated. Mr Mackenzie has replied I that ha cannot do so, as his first duty is to his constituents. He was glad to deliver a tpeacb incidentally as a visitor fo Auckland at the request of its inhabitants, but that anything in the nature of a series of addresses in the province he could not do. until after he had addressed his constituents. PRESS CRITICISM.; The Herald says:•—" It 13 almost to be regretted that, whether from his own magnetic influence over the meeting or the decadence of the new Liboralism, Mr Mackenzie did not; recaive that resistance to his expression of opinion in the form of iatarraptiou which seems to put him at his best, the very few interruptions that occurred bringing out some of the most witty and brilliant corruscations of his speech. In truth, the whole audience was with the speaker from the first, and, amid repeated outbursts of applause, the speaker was followed ! with unflagging interest to the close of his address. But though versatility of argument and illustration, quickness of retort and a playfulness of fancy that brought the speaker into the frankest relations with .his audience, j gave a piquancy and sometimes a pungency that was singularly ' taking,' ifc was the solid array of facts and the irresistible deduction from them that made Mr Mackenzie's address one of the most mmarkable and convincing that has ever been heard in Auckland ; and it would have beep impossible for any intelligent supporter of the presehii Government to have followed item by item the points in Mr Mackenzie's indictment, sustained as they.wore by admissions, ftcts, and documents, yjithout leaving the meeting a more thoughtful if not a wiser man. Altogether the address was one of the most lucid and moat scathing reviews of maladministration and of political and pretentious humbug that ha»e bsen presented in Auckland for roauy a day." The Star says:—"The address delivered by Mr Scobie Mackenzie in the Choral Hall last night was the most entertaining political speech we have listened to in Auckland for a long j time. Very seldom do wo get politics served j up to us in the attractive form in which he can j present them. Very seldom do we feel in- j elined to ask for a second helping after ! the first, as in&ny were quite ready to dolast night;. We find much in Mr Mackenzie's speech that commands our entire concurrence, and the Opposition here and in other parts of New Zealand will be all the wiser and better if they mark, learn, and inwardly- digest hw teachings. He showed, for example, and justly, that the Liberal and labour measures adopted by the Government are neither new noc revolutionary, but are pact of a. forward movement to which preceding Governments had contributed, and which will ao jdohbtj'bo revised, improved, and added to by Governments to come. He also gave a very effective dig at the nonsensical cry raised by political faddists of various kinds against the party system.