The Maryport Advertiser Friday, July 21, 1882 Political, Society and Local

Political, Society and Local

The Maryport Advertiser - Friday, July 21, 1882

SIR WILFRID LAWSON has been making another speech against the Government and the newspapers.  The press of the country was almost unanimous in its condemnation of his remarkable oratorical performance in the House of Commons on Wednesday week, therefore, it is, we presume, that the press in the opinion of  the member for Carlisle is "all for blood and thunder" and "rotten".    By some process of reasoning peculiar to himself, SIR WILFRID LAWSON has made it clear in his own mind that journalists do not keep a conscience, and that they are invariably wrong and he is invariably right.  If the policy of the member for Carlisle had been carried out, British interests in Egypt would have been left to the tender mercies of a robber and a rebel, the European residents would have had to fly for their lives, the Suez Canal would have been abandoned, and we should have quietly permitted ARABI PASHA to give us a sounding slap in the face in the sight of the world. Such a policy is not the policy of a statesman:  it is unworthy even of a parish vestryman;  and SIR WILFRID never made a greater mistake in his life than he makes in thinking that it commands the approval of a majority of the working men of this country. _____________________________________________________________________________ The present is not the first occasion on whIch SIR WILFRID LAWSON has done his best to embarass the Government, and it is just as well that he should be told a little plain truth.  Political freelances have their uses, no doubt, but it is not pleasant to see an avowed Liberal, however conscientious and sincere he may be - and nobody doubts the conscientiousness and sincerity of SIR WILFRID LAWSON - act in a manner which would almost put a Tory to shame.    He condemned the Government because they did not run away from the Transvaal just as energetically as he is doing now, and it is high time he should clearly understand that a large number of men whose opinion is of some value, think he might be more  profitably employed than in winning cheers from the Home Rulers and adding to the troubles of the Ministry. The speeches of SIR WILFRID LAWSON on the Egyptian question prove nothing except his total incapacity to understand the first principles of government, and he would act wisely if he were to imitate the dignified tone and manner of MR. JOHN BRIGHT. ====================================================================

 

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