THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Briki? Authouity Auvkbu.
It is a strange thing that il any new power or authority be given to man, lie almost invariably allows it to muster him before- he learns to master it. The budding politician, the embryo statesman, placed for the first time upon the seats ot the niore-ui-lcss mighty, is just as likely to make a nuisance of himself in his endeavour to “show oil” as the youth who sits for the first time behind the wheel of his own car. Whether Shakespeare’s generalisation be always and altogether true is n matter for argument; but there is little doubt that when mien first puts on the (Inals of authority the. words of tiro poet ate true enough: he does, indeed, play tricks laiitastie enough to move Hie heave-lily host to uvis.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1925, Page 2
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137THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1925, Page 2
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