AN ABSURD SUGGESTION.
In the course of the wrangle in the House of Representatives on Friday night, the Hon. J. A. (Millar sought to impeach the Leader oif tho Reform Party for withholding the information he possessed about the bribe, alleged to have been offered Mr Payne until he discovered that Mr Payne intended voting with the Government. Any person with a true sense of right and wrong will scorn tho attitude of Mr Millar. Is it not as clear .as daylight that the person who should have publicly resented the attempt- at bribery, if it was really made, was Mr Payne .himself ? What right had Mr Massey to give publicity to the matter until Mr Payne had been afforded the fullest opportunity of doing so? The plea of intimidation is altogether too thin. Men who are not prepared to take the consequences of their actions are not fit to represent the peo-
pin in Pi)rliament. A r,d no man who is worth his political salt would bo intimidated by a reference to a subject with which he is not immediately concerneed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10568, 26 February 1912, Page 4
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182AN ABSURD SUGGESTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10568, 26 February 1912, Page 4
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