BOLSTERING UP LIBERALISM.
The off orbs of the Opposition journal in "Wellington to belittle the Government would bo amusing were they not so transparently inconsistent. On Monday the Government lias no policy. On Tuesday it has too much policy. On Wednesday it travels too much about the country. On Thursday it does not travel enough. On Friday it is too silent. On Saturday it is saying too much. Liberalism—or the remnants of the hybrid thing which postures under the name —is hard putto it to maintain a semblance of animation. It is coquetting with the Red Feds., and the Brown Feds., and the Over-Feds., but none of them take it seriously. The days of bluff, and bounce, and pandering, and expediency are. gone for over. For twenty years t'lie country struggled under a system of opportunism and sham Liberalism that degraded the constituencies. And the people, having emancipated; themselves, are not likely to he deluded by hireling newspapers or designing place-seekers into returning to the mire.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 February 1913, Page 4
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166BOLSTERING UP LIBERALISM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 4 February 1913, Page 4
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