Mr Seddon's Soliloquy.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 271, 24 March 1894, Page 4

Mr Seddon's Soliloquy.

The vote direct, or not direct— that is the question : Whether 'tis better in the mind to puffer The taunts and threats of the Liquor Party, Or to take a stand against the Prohibitioniete, And, by opposing, crush them ? To oppose, to crush — No more ; and, by crushing, to say we end Their interference and the thousand natural shocks They make us heir to. 'Tis a connsumation Devon -'"ly to be wished. To crush, to opposeTo oppose ! • Perchance to be opposed — ay, there's the rub ; For, in opposing, what opposition we may meet, When we cannot shuffle off this question longer, Must give us pause : There's the respect That makes this question of so grave import; For who would bear the quipß and scorns of Isitt, Or Taylor's tongue, or Earnshaw's contumely, Or the insolence of Stout, or the spurns That unworthy rag, the Prohibitionist, gives, Whmi he himself might crush them all Wittj k bare majority ? Who would insults hear, . And oil and talk throughout the coun- . try's 1< ngth, But that the dread of something more im- ■ portant — The ni tr'a seat, to which we may not Be retm in c — must miike us careful And bi. n- raaier beur those knocka we have Than run the eh f zoning worse knocks still? Thu- - ■■■ tor power doth nuLe turncvinis of us nil ; And Urns the firm resolve </ i.dp 11 » Liquor RingIs sicklied o'er with the thoug 1! ot tobin;. power ; And great specula <ns in ; < L.ipio. Traffic, With this regard, must 1 v. . 1 c other waj — An c their s ■>; . nw p. r t m