Eloquence

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 November 1916, Page 2

Eloquence

(By WALT MASON.)

1 listen to tlio »itted speaker, the patriotic office flecker, who hits his voice, that's strong and hearty, ani neatly skins the other party. He shows how tyrants .grind, and goad me. and get my goat and overload lue, and rob me by unjust taxation, until i in hot with indignation. And when I leave that redhot meeting. I say, "Such tacts are surely heating; unless that fellow is elected, the country's doom may he expected." iNext night 1 hear another spieler address the voter and the Heeler. He is the gifted speaker's foeuian, and with the trout of ancient Roman, that gifted speaker lie denounces, and with tho laxli of virtue trouuccfi. He fdiows mc how the gifted speaker is but a chronic office seeker, the agent of a hunci of" tyrants win; charge the p.cor unholy high rents, who, having got me, won t release me, but certainly wl! grind and fleece me. And as I leave the hall I mutter, "We'll drift along to ruin utter, unless this fe'low is the winner, unless he beats that baleful sillier!" I hear the patriots embattled; the more I hear, the worse I'm rattled!