"FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW."
How many of those who cheered Sir Joseph Ward in the House of Representatives and Legislative Council last week and sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" to the time of "We Won't Co Home Till Morning" were in earnest about the matter? How many of them folt in their hearts that they were playing the part of the hypocrite? Did any of them suppose that the country did other than ridicule such an exhibition? It is an old stage dodge, when an audience is disgusted with a performance, for the actors to start a cheer from behind the scenes. This only makes the audience- the • more contemptuous. So will it be with the actors in the political farce. Their stage ensemble has been wretchedly weak, and, to cover their shame, they raise a cheer on their own account. The whole business is "humiliating. Nobody cares a snap of the finger about what happened twenty .years ago. A pamphlet dealing with past history cannot iniure a clean reputation. And all the applause possible from behind the scenes cannot establish confidence in a combination which is weak and undone.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10132, 5 December 1910, Page 4
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194"FOR HE'S A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW." Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10132, 5 December 1910, Page 4
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