A FINE EULOGY

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10300, 1 August 1911, Page 4

A FINE EULOGY

One of tbe finest eulogiios that was paid the late Mr T. E. Taylor, M.P., during his life-time, was written by Mr J. G. Woolley, tine faraous. American orator who toured Jvew Zealand some time. ! baok. It was as follows-. —"ln. tine l centre of tlies?. elemienital forces for good stamds the heroic figure of a. Man —Tom Taylor, of Christoburch, the Savonarola of New Zealand— a giant morally and intellectually, a- child of the people, a genius land titoo idol of the best element of the colony, an orator of the finest magnitude, a isal'f-'ta.ugbt scholar, a. man of affairs, and masterly business ability and habits, as keen as James G. Elaine, lais brave as John P. Si. John, and, as fine as Frances Wdllard; deficient, some say, in tact for leadership, but an the midst of a regime of foxy plots and damiagogy, it is like a- breath of mountain air to catch .the flash of his naming black eyes, and the. clarion note of Ms'voice., and know that lie is aline and .making trouble. Certain it is ithat when he rises ii,n ParKament to speak, the Premier and his little Ministers shudder. Where he walks vice cowers and licensed infamy (howls. The first twenty years of' the twentieth cenitury -wall mean for New. Zealand. Jiier moral emancipation, in politics, and whan*'tire history of .lirti is written, it will be named The Life ajid Times of T. E, Taylor."