Poor Sheep

NZ Truth, Issue 1195, 25 October 1928, Page 6

Poor Sheep

— ...♦'.... j THAT nebulous noodle, sometimes described as the public mind, is an extremely vacuous structure m the matter of striking- an arc of penetration through the subject of electioneerings speeches. It is pitiful to .hear the bleating; of political audiences when candidates lay their wares open for inspection. The Prime Minister opens the Keform campaign at, say, Invercargill, and is loudly acclaimed when he simulates ail enthusiasm for scoring broadsides on the Labor armour-plates. The following night, or perhaps a week later, . the leader of the Labor party says- : the same thing m a slightly different set of phrases, and is loudly applauded by the same people, who, but a few days previously,^roundly'denounced him m their acclamation of his opponent. 4 Those who sit m; the national watch-tower, and "vie\y the paddocks of political contention: which range and rage >m all . dir--ections, develop a cynical twist of the lips when they! listen to the baa-ing of those election animals, who, fleeing with .the hare;; screen themselves behind a neighboring hedge of argument, .then join their pent-up howlings with those of the .pursuing hounds. There are many m the pen, and most of them, akin to their fourfooted likenesses, do what the neighbor does — irrespective of the whips which flourish on the hustlings many weeks before the ballot-boxes open their maws.