THE REFUGE OF FOOLS
It is marvellous what wide contradictions there are between the sentiments of tbe self-styled Reformers when they were in opposition and their practice now that they are in office. When the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, on a West Coast platform, was asked why he had broken his pre-election pledge that he would never sit in a freehold Ministry, he replied that “consistency was the refuge of fools.” This, no doubt, passed for unanswerable logic. Anyhow, we will leave it at that. But, only last year, when Mr John Payne was charged with breaking a pledge to vote for Mr Massey, which pledge he denied having made, the vials of vituperative “Reform” wrath were poured out on his devoted head. Not a word was said then, even by tho Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, about “consistency being the refuge of iopls.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8353, 13 February 1913, Page 6
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145THE REFUGE OF FOOLS New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8353, 13 February 1913, Page 6
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