Political Notes & Notions
What is a Liberal in New Zealand? Mr. Bryce doesn't seem to knoAV and Major Atkinson, Avith many others, has been lately folloAVing suit. All Avith Avonderful unanimity scout the title of Conservatives and declare themselves true and earnest Liberals. Happy country in which there are no parties and m A.diich such glorious concord prevails. If only one could believe it real and forget ho ay the same men so often gloried in the title they are iioav eager to repudiate, lioav they re-A died democrats and mob orators and the mob of Auckland in particular, what a blessing a short memory would be- But unhappily facts are stubborn things, and none but children can exhibit the credulous trust which these brandnew Liberals ask from those they so often denounced. The sudden disappearance of Conservatives can only be regarded as a curious fact in natural history. Whither have they fled, and avo uid they have disappeared so mysteriously if it had not been for the great outburst of popular feeling under Sir George Grey? What are the chances of their reappearing and under what guise will they come ? To ansAver these questions it is necessary to consider .vhat the essential difference hetween the t avo parties always has been, still is, and ahvays Avill be.
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Observer, Volume 2, Issue 34, 7 May 1881, Page 364
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218Political Notes & Notions Observer, Volume 2, Issue 34, 7 May 1881, Page 364
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