Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1805. PARLIAMENTARY STORKS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5122, 5 September 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1805. PARLIAMENTARY STORKS.

Tue Liberal Party nmy be congratulated upon a new development. For the first lime it lias tried to walkalone. 'ln the Bank Bill business members actually let go the hand of Nurse Seddon and felt their own feet. There is nothing new under the sun, and this precocity on the part of some of our Liberal fledglings was foretold many years ago by Hans Anderson, a writer of romance, who though he probably never hoard of New Zealand, had some kind of instinct as to what colonial statesmen and legislators ought to be, In one of his delightful stories lie tells his readers that the youngest storks are content with being told " cribblycrabbly, plurry-murry," They consider this capital, but the older ones want a deeper mcaninc;, For the past three yearn lias not Mr Seddon been saying to the Parliamentary storks who follow his guidance: "oribbly-crabbly,plurry-nmtry,"and have not they considered this utterance the height of human wisdom and taken it to explain everything. It is only now that some of them are getting 'ft liftlp older, and are wanting to know what 11 cribbly-crabbly," and more especially what "plurryJlurray," means. The good old time when Mr Seddon could satisfy his followers with an oracular "cribblycrabbly " are past, and for the future they will y/ifnfc " the deeper meaning," and when they get this they won't be quite as'comfortable in their minds as they were when Mr Seddon did all the thinking for them, and they only repeated the phrases with which he supplied thorn. The storks in our Liberal Party are at last emancipated, and the membors of tlio party can never again be what they have been in the past: a group of unfledged birds with mouths wide open waiting to swallow such worms as the Seddonian parent might drop into thorn, In tlio rccont Bank debate they have leai'nt to fly and to depend upon their own wings. At last they are beyond the " cribblycrabbly stage.