THE CASTIGATOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 164, 10 January 1912, Page 4

THE CASTIGATOR.

Mr. E.jG,. Jellicoe, who was once a Wellington lawyer, is (the sort 'of gentleman flagellates everybody and everything, because Mr, Jellicoe must have limelight ot perish. -Be is the gentleman who , would rise with a rush in : a public assembly to throw 'an. allegation Ijaok into the teeth ,of some innocent, stumbling orator or other. He ife capable of blaming people for not carrying him into Parliament by a thumping majority, and in the matter of court cases tye- is a terror to the evildoer and the innocent alike. He sinelleth the battle afat off,-and if there is a head he can ijjmitp, with, a verbal shillelagh, he hits Vt. Mr. JelKcoei, has Jieen ;i interviewed fty the London Standard. We will presume that the Standard sought out Mr. fiellicoe and not Mr. Jellicoe the Standard, He has, however, unloaded a cargo of;, bile into that paper that makes one Wonder' whether the foggy climate of London really is good for livef complaint. He says that on revisiting New Zealand he found all his former poitical views falsified. . As any views Mr. Jellicoe pight 'hold would.be ."up against" everything and everybody, we are sincerely thankful for this admission. Individual (thrift has been substantially annihili&ted. JLf thrift is annihiliated, it does not matiter how substantial the annihilation is—as long as it i 9 annihilation. How he came to gather this pearl about the injdividual and his thrift is difficult to see. jln hi 9 exalted -spherfij when no. man may speak to him unless his fee is "substantially" visible, Mr. Jellicoe would ihardly to able to see the inmost' heart of the. backblocks settler who is engaged in the thrift business, nor is it ilikely that he would stoop from his giddy perch to enter the humble cot of the laborer. He had to say something, and his whole reputation makes it necessary that it should be spiteful and l without 'substantial foundation. He said the Arbitration Acts are spurious and have resulted in the creation of a host of well paid officials who live by harassing 'traders. The harassed traders didn't know any thing about it until Mt. Jellicoe burst with a loud report in the Standard, i Mr. Jellicoe has the quality of many i "fighters" of his class. He hasi put a huge wall of water between the people he traduces' and himself. It is hoped that Mr. Jellicoe is now a permanent resident of England. His voice will presently be quite lost among the forty million 'odd ones. When British people learn their Mr. Jellicoe as New Zealanders have learned him, they will simply refuse to heed his denunciations. They may regard him as a curiosity in the same category as the Siamese Twins, or the "Bearded Lady," but as a serious proposition—never.