Caustic Criticism.
1 The TimarQi Herald, in. a leading article onthe-ljiie'Propertjr Tax debate, says the Colonial Treasurer was ,' evidently very " hif*h ia the stirrups", when Jie spoke his piece. Our conjtem-' porary states : — '• Ever since he founds he had a safe majority for the {session. £he has quite dropped the deferential, conciliatory manner which he assumed so much before, and has been almost unbearably arrogant. •On Tuesday night he saw he had his opponents at his ieet, and all he bad to do was to kick them; And kick them he did to his heart's content. His speech in reply vras one ' of the most insolent addresses, perhaps, ever heard in the House.; It I was as personal as Mr Dargaville's, ■ 1 and as illogical as Mr Montgomery's. In fact, Major Atkinson entirely forgot the dignity of his position and 'his duty to the Honse and the country. ;His sole impulse was to wreak a Yulgorivengeance on his puny assailants. His, speech was not so much th a utterance of a Minister expounding finance to a legislative chamber, as an echo from a distant/penod in his career , In the Taranaki colony, , Where the word of command once . used to be, ' ; a ; , Not "Forward 1" but ir Gefe- Whoap, Strawberry 1" , :
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 218, 18 August 1883, Page 3
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210Caustic Criticism. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 218, 18 August 1883, Page 3
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