WESTLAND MEMBERS.
■ v* ■ TO THE EDITOK OF THE INDEPENDENT. Sib, — To an unprejudiced observer it is amusing to notice the various lights in which an action is viewed by persons possessing, to all appearance, the same means of judgment. These remarks occurred to me on reading a letter in your evening contemporary, where, apparently repenting of having spoken truthfully of a member's utterances, the shallow and transparent desire for poulticing the wound on the subject's vanity is adopted — when it is discovered that ho is an Opposition member — of addressing the editor by way of letter, and therein recanting all that was said by the forgetful reporter. That individual should surely have known his business better that to have spoken so plainly of an Opposition member ; suoh as he are not good for anything but honey ; the gall must all be kept for tho supporters of Governmont. And, singularly enough, in the same paper appears an untruthful sneer, quoted wrongly from the " West Coast Times" (tho leading Westland journal), at one who is regarded as a Vogelito. This gentleman, it appears, in addition to tho crime of holding such heteredox views, had the audacity to publicly denounce a falsehood fabricated by your contemporary, on which a tirade of foul abuse of the Premier was built. With the exposure of the falsehood the sting was taken out of the abuse, and, for thus doing, vials of wrath have boon stored to be heaped on his devoted head, and now, when the offence has been almoßt forgotten, an old paper is raked up in which an anonymous scribbler grossly mis-states the action of tho advocate of truth, and misrepresents tho effect, of it. Truly it is only another evidence of the hopeless weakness of the Opposition, when the small fry of the House of Representatives are made the subjectß of abuse or laudation, according as they oppose or support the Ministry. Journalism is, indeed, at a low stage when its opinions are so influenced. — I am, &0., Observer.
WESTLAND MEMBERS.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3313, 7 October 1871, Page 3
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