FEDERAL PARLIAMENT ADJOURNMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8135, 15 June 1906, Page 2

FEDERAL PARLIAMENT ADJOURNMENT.

DENOUNCED BY THE "AGE."

SATIRE ON THE MEMORY OP A GREAT STATESMAN. Reoeived 14, 9.48 p.m. Mblboubnb, June 14. The "Age" in a leading article s ,T ys J j7° tho orißis of tll e Boer war, Mr Seddon was the inspiration of Am. tralian .action." The paper severely deals with the adjournment of Parliament as a mark of respect, and lays it seems a pitiful anaohronism that the death of such a man as this, whose life was given up to the service of the publio, should have been made the oooasmn of another of those unmeaning Parliamentary adjournments, that are always seized upon with avidity, parliamentary adjournment as a mark ' ot respect is a senseless proceeding, and means nothing more than neglecting publio duty "to pursue private amusement And they Signify, this proceeding by the courtesy title ot respect for the dead. In flu, case of some men, whose lives are a prolonged aot of idleness, running . away from duty, it would be in keep. / rag, however little it may have inito respect, but to follow thatcourse in the case of the late Mr Seddon, whose whole life was dedicated to sedulous performance, was a sorry affair iet it is that the Federal Parlia-" ment gave up an catire sitting ™ a: ' J 'W form of the very kind that Mr Seddon despised. If Parliament Had voted money to a statue, a scholarinip or any other means linking the name of Seddon with the Nation's sense of honor and gratitude, it Would have discharged its duty to a great Australasian Liberal, but to imagine that it did any honor to Mr Seddon by abstaining from the performance of its duty, is about the severest, satire it could pass upon his memory.