THE Manawatu Times. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1880. THE WISH FATHER TO THE THOUGHT.

Manawatu Times, Volume IV, Issue 45, 5 June 1880, Page 2

THE Manawatu Times.

SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1880. THE WISH FATHER TO THE THOUGHT.

«»Worda-ara thing*, and a drop of ink falling like ;' - de\r upona thought, produces that which makes : '" thppsauds, perhaps millions think." ,

Pr is really amusing to note- the insane efforts which the Tory journals make to' induce ehe i people tii bbliore that there -ia : anarchy and division m the Liberal; eadip. The' utterance of this; member is chronicled ta show that he .'is... favorable to Sir_; : G|-Kp.RQ:E Q-RET; jvhilethe speeehaf another is twisted "and distorted to prove him an adherent of Mr. Macatstdrkw. The riise is a clever, one,' but neverthtless, we are a-f raid its authors will find to their disgust that it will prove abortive. The fertile imaginative powersof" specials ■' -are given full 'swing to supply somft little tit bit respecting occurrences' which have no existence outside the brain of the autho.r, accuracy, is jsaoHQced to.^rjtistic dressing, ganji; truth. is »unk to | where the philosopher found it — at the bottom p of;the well. .Pelitical squibs, like drea'tfis, generally gob y the rule of contrariety ; and n.otwithstaTfding the artificial self-con-.fdent' gloat p-and; c r ow| indulged m, We imagine there is a 7 secret: fear of 4he solid phalanx which will confront ihe -ÜBurperii oiiiTuesday; ;i Fortiifiately for tha Liberal cause, _, Mr. Macakdeew has no desireto assume ihe command, and,, as is weli known the le^ership,; of 4§st. Session htd io;S,p forcjei '.upon him, while the gracib us way t f m which : Sip QtEobge. Grey deferred to the general wish should^^ resign-, the< command, augurs well that there will be pp f rpp}f s^i<sh|fa^ r cause. Of it suited thY tactics of the Tory ■organs to feed disunion, and disaffoxjtion when they do exist and to assert their existence when such really was not the case. Last year the Hi^i Government, was

known by its most fitting appellation -^'The Ministry of Defeats," and true to its principles it has inaugurated the new Session by lopping off oue of the limbs of the Property .Tax and throwing it to the malcontents as a kind of sop, while it retains a further lease of pewer. It dare not make that Bill a Q-overmment measure, and it will be found that the moment it is s«en that the " noes " have a majority, it will share the fataof ita predecessor, the I<*^d Tax.