JOSEPH ARCH IN PARLIAMENT.
Mr Joseph Arch's first spoooh in Parliament (ariye an esohange) affordsVfefli'iie but conclusive proof of the cxtfemely limited character of that gent pjian'g acquaintance with his own special (Act. ihe Load Advocate of Scotland, Wing he debate on January 16th, referred to the farm-labourers of his oi#c6tmtry the universal term applied to them for aome distance south of the borders. He called them' "hind*"—an excellent old English word, without the slightest coSty nation of contempt. But the new mem* ber for Norfolk did not know the word. Hid apparently attached to it a zoological ngnificance. Accordingly ho prooeeded ivo rcbukethe feudal Jnoplonce of tM !£•?s#& fd to a® hMost mdependaiice 'tjiar, though the ItoMms in Question « Wo re bam in Jumble cottages, and their lives. W e W lives of poverty, they looked upon thera. S'®? m e n ; " Then with a. humourous application of the tu quoque method of ■ reasoning he observed that the 'honor-' • member opposite would be much annoyed if ho spoksof them as "aristo- ' cratio goats. Comment ia needless,-
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2260, 2 April 1886, Page 2
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177JOSEPH ARCH IN PARLIAMENT. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2260, 2 April 1886, Page 2
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