LIBERAL FLATTEEY.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 153, 23 June 1892, Page 2

LIBERAL FLATTEEY.

TO THK EDITOR OP THE STAR. Sib,— ln my young schooling days 1 was tau«bt to beware of and to detest the flatterer 'whether male or female, bat the great use made of flatter^ by the Liberals of the present days in New Zealand, would lead the thoughtful to suppose it was precursory to having that art introduced into the state . schopls^tp^Bjfeaught as one of the fine" arts or sciences. The. labor members have dropped in. for a large , amount of flatterj/itaron^fe thoir inadvisable pledge of blind support to the Great Liberal Party, and Lcotice that whenever their anegianWS^KTub. ted a great stream of praise goes^ forth to them from head-quarters. In connection with above there must' sorely' W a new bump forming on the Liberals' cranium of the present day somewhere cofiti&upus to' that of self conceit; aDd'atorredpondrogbump on , the- recipients' upper rtpry to take it all. in bUt, I leave this for the phrenologist to determine. The Georges have gone off colour, and from J>eing "stars of the ' first magnitudl"inlth9 Liberal firmament hare receded V the region? of darkness; but Patrick has now come to the < fore and for the time being has been: transformed, into sdhe greatest of the great Liberal etara^Sir P. Buckley's birth' must surel^.h^^ta^en He has recently been knighted fhrough the very accommodating but caiitiiiis "circumstances that have made', it-honourable for one man to refuse that title and an honour for another to .. acoepfcuifcaaut then Sir P. Buckley : hos & t &6UaaXAAutv ; to perform and a fayour to f sobcit^rpm His Excellency the hew Governor* and now it is proposed to give Bir*Pa«rfck a banquet when ,no doubt tne# VilT^e a general twinkling i of the great iind'si&ll stars of Liberalism auoT »U ibandlflitterr indulged in. Last > session, the Liberals attempted to thwart, or postpone indefinitely, the passing of , the Eemale;|ftinchise Bill as : they' were, 1 no' dbubOfiijid that women would ybte uponpkrt&ple and Jfcherefore fayour those • whyclitf/io principle and are most desetviD/jof their yote, namely the : Qonseryatives,- but iince the Liberals have, seen the above jßi 11 is bound to pass sooner orlater by theincreasmg force of public opinion in its favour, they haye poured forth" a great amount of flattery towards A© female fj^go&amfer the patronage of . no .less 'stars than Sir " Sobert and Lad^ Stout haye brought her forth at public 1 meetings to go through a process of political training in the cause of Liberalism, lii portions ofShe Lib- . erai press long articles arl noVrotten in her praise. This change of ppiniohsi kind fascination for giving and receiving flattery by the Liberals of the; present day, may be part of their progressive .pokey. If so the more ciiltivated/Liiberalsl and those Who have been itati^ht^VtFeTotd school, must wish: themselves back'f» me •« good old times f. when , our fore'iathers were all either WKigsand Tories/ "Writing about Tories reminds me that according to the authority of ihe'Martpb^ejcury, N.Z. Times, and otter alleged Liberal papers, that some of them, Wr Q about the seventeenth century are 1 stifl \% Ma flesh, and live m this district^ 'Thissays a good deal for their vitality asl believe that their contemporaries, tve o Wuy&' be- . came fossilized, long ago. My adviijefo the Liberals is Ihat ; whW^lrW certain motives flattery is c io ba made ujje oCto seek a private interview and party be male or feinaleadtnitoiloffand praise can be 1 indulged in fojtie lie&rts content and out of the reach of criticism, 'lam, etc., ' '''". ;