INFERIORITY SUCCEEDS WHERE SUPERIORITY FAILS.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 239, 25 January 1898, Page 2

INFERIORITY SUCCEEDS WHERE SUPERIORITY FAILS.

TO THK EDITOR. Sir,—l think it will not be denied that, not as a politician but as a deep, farseeing statesmen, and in the knowledge of alt laws of cause and effect in the betterment of the human race, MrS<*ddon is in comparison to Lord Salisbury as a pigmy to a giant. Yet if these two men were placed in New Zealand to earn their livings as politicians, Mr Seddon, the inferior, would live on roast beef and champagne while Lord Salisbury, the superioi, would die for want of a crust of bread. In the tremendous and momeutous issues which hold the British Empire from crumbling to pieces, and also in its industrial and trade ramifications upon which the people depend for their live'ihood, Mr Seddon would tor the want of knowledge be lost, whereas Lord Salisbury is quite conversant with them. In New Zealand Mr Seddon is quite in touch with the inferior political knowledge and political morality prevalent, whereas Lord Salisbury would not be in touch with them—not through lack of knowledge of how to become so, but from the fact that his mmd would revolt at an act of descent. There is an affinity in the rise of the mind of man, but there i 3 revolt at its descent. In New Zealand the inferior man, from the nature of his surroutidings, would be a success and the superior man a failure. —I am, etc;. Harapepe.