PICTURESQUE LANGUAGE.
The phraseology which is just now being employed by the leaders of the Liberal Party in the British Parliamentary campaign is picturesque, to say the least of it. Mi 1 LloydGeorge and Mr Winston Churchill have, if the cable summary of their speeches be correct, excelled themselves in the use of coarse vulgarisms, and meaningless allegory. Mr Churchill, in describing Mr Austen Chamberlain as a "wooden effigy/"' and Mr Balfour as an "amiable dilletante," may have affected wit. He certainly did not impress the world that he was possessed of such a virtue. Personal recriminations and vulgar abuse are the weapons of the intellectually and politically weak. They are unworthy of a Minister of the British Crown and ill-becoming any person .who regards with reverence the high ideals and finer traditions of the British race.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 1 December 1910, Page 4
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137PICTURESQUE LANGUAGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 1 December 1910, Page 4
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