SHAMS AND HUMBUGS.
We dd not know'why the Pfe&s Association agent at Wellington should have selected the speech of the member for Avon as the .only one worthy of publication in the stonewall debate otn Saturday, unless it be that the others (and tliey were all presumably delivered by Oppositionists) were not worth recording. As for the bad-tempered and undignified outburst of Mr ix. W. Russell, one need only say that it is characteristic of a gentleman who has never recovered from the .shock he when ho fell out of the Cabinet window. It ill becomes him to talk of shams and humbugs, or to reproach Ministern for adopting measures which he conceives to be "scandalous." Anything and everything that Ministers do is scandalous in the eyes of Mr Russell. But Mr Russell represents or misrepresents, a Christchurch constituency, and that says a very great deal. The Government is not likely to be influenced by the taunts or threats oif the member for Avon. Nor will it surrender one inch of its constitutional rights in response to the impudent demands of the leaders of a discredited and desperate Opposition.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 November 1913, Page 4
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