MB BERRY AND SIR GEO, GREY.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2449, 10 February 1882, Page 3

MB BERRY AND SIR GEO, GREY.

There always appeared (says the “ Australasian ”) to be some mystic affinity between the political fortunes of Mr Berry in this colony, and Sir George Grey in New Zealand. The careers of those politicians daring tbo last few years show how potent an instrument for a time in a democratic state is the faculty of immeasurable loquacity,if its possessor will use it for the purpose of playing on the suspicions, the passions, and the Agreed of the multitude, and, at the same time, how limited is the duration of it* efficacy, and how powerless it is after the limit [is passed. Sir George Grey and Mr Berry rose to power by the most ignoble meat s, and used it for the most reprehensible objects. They lost it in the same way, because they were found out, and tho people had had enough of them. Disgust with their principles of political action was as rife within their own party as in the ranks of their opponents. The consequence of their fall has been utter impotence. Their power of making windy and excited harangues is undiminished, but its effect is gone. It meets with no response, and becomes a mere resultless agitation of the sir. The issue of the late elections in New Zealand has been to strip Bir George Grey of tho little power for evil which he before possessed. One journal, writing in the interests of the Opposition, tells us that “ it is to Mr Macandrew or Mr Montgomery that the Opposition mast look for their leader. It cannot stand Sir George Grey at any price. . . . Just as he wrecked his party before, he would wreck it again. He has no sense of what is due to others, and he has an exaggerated notion of what is due to himself. Hence, hardly any man of first class ability would lend his assistance or embark with bis - fortunes in the same craft.” This is tho opinion of tho paper of Mr. Ballance, Bir George Grey’s former Treasurer. The quotation aptly illustrates the condition to which unscrupulous demagoguism has reduced the party which entrusted its fortunes to the guidance of Sir George Grey.