A SAVAGE SPEECH.

Colonist, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8300, 15 July 1895, Page 3

A SAVAGE SPEECH.

Sydney, July 13. Sir H, Parkes has consented to oppose the Premier, Mr Eeid. In informing his Commttee of his deoision, Sir Henry made a bitter and p^rs:nal attack on Mr Beid, calling him brainless, and said that his polioy was calculated to carry desolation in all branches of the public seivica ; that hia proposed inform of the Council would simply make that Chamber Bn instrument in the hands of a prcfligate M^nist y ; and tbat such a polioy as proposed would degrade lha institution, para'yse industries, and make the country unfit for any man of character to live in. It wa3 even worse than the French revolution. Sir Henry contended he himself was a king compartd to Mr Eeid, who withes the law disposing of the population to pander to the lower classes in the country. Amongst other iniquities Mr Beid had prostituted the Preae, which was no longer free and independent, and he (Sir H. Parkea) could not re: der aoy greater service to the country, and the cause of the union, than in oppasiog such a public eaemy as Mr Eeid. He said he would enter tb.9 contest as an uncompromising enemy of Mr Eeid and all his belongings, and that if be died in the -.trnggle his heart would be torn with all jluiiis of pain.