THE DESIRED ADDRESS FROM THE PREMIER.

Waikato Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 3502, 4 December 1894, Page 8

THE DESIRED ADDRESS FROM THE PREMIER.

, TO THE KDITOS. SiR,-Whenthe •• Wizard of the North " his wonderful tricks to the • admiring crowds, who went to see his isleight of i hand, the lookers on understood that his cleverness was only con. • juring tricks, How .different ; it is to the Hamilton Liberals, they take Mr Seddon's, words, as representing the inward truths of his (Mr Seddon's) mind, They ar,e not possessed of sufficient gumption and knowledge of the ; conjuring tricks of speech of Liberal, leaders, to understand that what Mr Seddon says,) is no more his true thoughts, than there is truth that the wizard blew a glass of i.wineputofhisjpistol,.when to all appearance; he loaded the pistol with a •bullet. Mc Seddon in his last year's addresses, previous to the late session went the whole hog for no more borrowing, •When doing so he was only conjuring his hearers, ashe no more intended keeping to what he said than a Scotchman does when holding up his child in church for baptism.; He, the Scotchman, takes vows before the whole cengregation tfiat he will have family, worship night and morning.: The Scotchman considers that the saying, he will do so has to be said or he would not, get' his child baptised, and Mr Seddon has to say many things that he.willjdo, but does not intend to do, If he did not say these things he would not iget his nominees elected, and his Government would come to an end Witness, MrSeddon's speech this time last year in Auckland. That speech was entirely worded so as to suit the public opinion of Auckland, or to be more correct, what he had been previoußly.saying in other cities down South would not go . down with the then prevailing opinion of the majority in Auckland. Mr Seddon was equal to the occasion. He changed .front from his previous speeches down Soith, ifhere he went the whole hog for . all the socialistic and labour fads created in the brains of political prentices. He saw that in Auckland he would need to 'give a speech borrowed from some journeyman. But no sooner does h« get to another town in the South when he once more changes front and is back again to what will go down with his hearers. Mr Seddon, in each speech, never intended to be guided by what he said in those speeches. What he intended to be guided by, was, what in the whirligig of events would be best for his retention of office. Political liberal leaders have no politics. 'As the wave of public opinion veers in one place towards socialism or conservatism; so do they veer round, as Mr Seddon did in Auckland, consequently, as far as principle is concerned they (the liberal leaders) ha r e none, Mr Editor,? if the Hamilton liberals had not desired Mr Seddon to address them, I would have said nothing about him. I have not in the past said anything against him, I was afraid if I did so, that by implication it would be considered so much in favour of his 'opponent Stout. God forbid that I, even ■■ by implication, should help the one against l the other, They are both chickens out of the same clutch, They are a pair of political rogues, and I hope they each will politically devour one the other, Stout this last session has wonderfully changed front from the Stout of old, but he don't bamboozle me. My mildness in what I have above said about Mr Seddon is wholly due to the fact that I will have no act or part in helping one political rogue against the other, the more the one torments the other the more will they be exposing the other and themselves. This will be great gain to the science of honest politics.—l am, etc, Harapepe.