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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 55

Evening Herald

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Evening Herald.

The newspaper is the great educator of the nineteenth century. There is no force compared with it. It is book, pulpit, platform, forum all in one. And there is not an interest religious, literary, commercial, scientific, agricultural, or mechanical—that is not within its grasp.

Talmae

Dunedin. September 2, 1885.

In concluding an article on the recent no-confidence debate the Lyttelton Times makes the following pattering allusion to the Premier : "Logical, honourable, high-minded, defending the Government position at all points and with all vigilance, ever ready to take up a lance to serve a colleague, invariably above the petty meanness with which he is assailed, perpetually a terror to the enemies of 'the Cabinet—such is Mr Stout. His enemies, who have smarted over and over again under his lash, can offer no better criticism than that he is a special pleader, and so dreadfully unfair as to attack when he ought to confine himself to defence. What Mr Stout has proved in many a well contested fight, and none more so than the last, is that in heart and brain he is made of the stuff of which leaders of men are made, and that his industry and knowledge have helped his heart and brain to make him as fit to be Premier of New Zealand as any man who has ever occupied the position."