The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1911. A FALSEHOOD FROM WELLINGTON.
For barefaced distortion of facts and utterly unscrupulous effrontery no newspaper in New Zealand can quite equal Wellington’s “Dominion.” It is one of the most shocking examples of Party fooling run mad. Its every issue contains a wildly hysterical tirade against the Government, and it is quite oblivious to any sense of fair play. Sometimes it is even amusing in its foolishness and conceit, and sometimes it is nauseating to a degree. It is merely amusing, but -very far from the truth, when in a further adulatory article of Mr J. B. Hine, it asserts that the “Stratford Post” is “under the spell” of Mr McCluggage. That is deliberately untrue, and the “Dominion” knows it full well. That paper, however, bound hand and foot as it is, is angry because the “Stratford Post” is not an Opposition organ any more than it is a Government organ. The “Stratford Post” is independent in its politics—and the Wellington newspaper alluded to does not know what independence means. It simply crawls on its belly to Party and its sycophantic anxiety to please is probably doing that party more harm than good. Some of our friends, who are strong party men, might possibly be misled by such wilfully mendacious statements as that made by the “Dominion,” but if they will look the matter squarely in the face they will admit that political independence does not mean supporting the side to which they happen to belong.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 72, 8 November 1911, Page 4
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260The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1911. A FALSEHOOD FROM WELLINGTON. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 72, 8 November 1911, Page 4
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