Notes and Events.

Manawatu Herald, 4 November 1893, Page 3

Notes and Events.

- ♦ Our contemporary the Manawatu Standard afforded us the other day a spectacle of Satan reproving Sin. So refreshing, coming from the source it did. Thus the Standard referring to the Times:— Oav contemporary should really restrain itself, : The publication of tirades of abuse and vituperative paragraphs is not concomitant with respectable journalism, and alongside fair reasoning nnd argnment is of no -avail. Let our contemporary note this, and endeavour to emerge from the de plorablo condition into which it has drifted' of late. We hope our contemporary will accept this wellmeant advice in the spirit in which it is given. Personal abuse unquestionably engenders bitter personal feeling, and the less we have of that in this election the better it will he fb? all concerned. We would prefer being even a •' Beddonian rag, 1 ' as our contemporary styles us, to reviling in every way possible our political opponents without regard to fact or ftreuuient.

That unchristian publication, the Timet, instead of offering the other cheek to be slapped, replied :- Quite a new and extremely convenient idea has been introduced by Seddonian journals. Accoiding.to this their candidates are to be at liberty to gay or do anything, however outrageous, but anyone opposing them is. not to be allowed to criticise * them- To ridicule or satnse them is the gravest offence known to "the paHy. v For instance, a Seddonian candidate may for years attack all who Stand in the way of his ambition may head articles in newspapers " The Lie Direct !" when referring totheM.H.R. for the district, and may also at public meetings rail against others and even characterise them as belonging to the class to "Svkich King David in his wrath as. signed all men. A Seddonian candidate majfalsb,' it must be under-" stood-, interrupt any public meeting —even one called to listen to a man invited from another district -but if atljjpg # his "meetings anyone yentuKfig to express dissatisfaction* he must be requested to hire a hall for Himself. If a Seddonian candidate is put under the painful process of being criticised on his merits, all the little Secfdoriian '•• rags " join in ululation, and their howlings are copied by other party ofegans as they were really independent expressions of opinion. When one observes these things, then in the" language ©f-eomio song and Forest •ilegerve enquiry " Yon wink (.lie | other eye.*' j It is a distinct gain that conduct Ighicb thf Standard complains o(,

and for Which it has been so notorious is now displeasing in its eye. We look on and smile, trusting that this Siaiiles'e-t\Yiri bijsiae.ss will soon collie to ari end, arid the Usual brotherly love will be continued when