PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 2, 21 June 1882, Page 2

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS

It would appear from parli amen try reports that there is a strong feebng of jealousy present in the minds of the older members towards the newly elected hon gentlemen who have the honor of facing: the Speaker for the first time. They appear to forget that the time has been when they pos-d to their constituents also for a first time in the House ; and that they were equally blatant, or timid, or stupid, or silly, according to their several idiosyncrocies, or the opinion of tbe unfortunates compelled to listen to their crude efforts at parliamentary eloquence. The conscious smile oi superior knowledge is permitted to ripple over a face that has erstwhde tingled with the blush of shame when its possessor's puny efforts to teach his grandmother to suck eggs were held up to deserved ridicule, while the finger of seora, pointed by a practised hand, cieated an uneasy feeling in the region of the epigastrium, not unlike the premonitory symptoms of sea-sickness ; yet has he no emotion of pity for the Tyro P The strength of experience is seldom merciful to the 'weakness of youth — unless on paper, when it can lie like Ananaias. Our advice is : let older members treat the young ones kindly, guide their feeble steps into the paths of political rectitude (if there are any), and support them until they can walk alone and have strength to scramble for the Toffy of office— like themselves.