"HE THAT 18 LORD OF HIMSELF IS GREATER THAN HE WHO TAKES A WALLED CITY.”

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 387, 7 December 1889, Page 2

"HE THAT 18 LORD OF HIMSELF IS GREATER THAN HE WHO TAKES A WALLED CITY.”

Mn Arthur does not seem to be happy |n the choice of his supporters. At the first meeting in McFarlane’s Hall Mr File wearied the audience. That, however, wap a matter personal to Mr File only. But yesterday both parties must have been surprised and disgusted at the display of bad taste by Mr J, C. Dunlop in his attempt to damage Mr Reas. We say surprised, because hitherto Mr Dunlop, in his capacity (limited it is true) as a Borough Councillor, had appeared to he dispassionate and fair. Those, then, who had formed that opinion of him must have been very much undeceived when they heard his malignant utterances, and saw by the changes of his countenance, and the accompanying nervous display, that he had given himself up for the time to the indulgence of passions, and had thrown his control of himself and his usual temperateness and fairness to the winds. It was the most humiliating exhibition wo had witnessed for a long time. The speech had evidently been prepared, and we think not by Mr Dunlop himself; he had merely learnt his lesson, and repeated it. We regard him merely as a medium. We have still so much of our previous good opinion of Mr Dunlop left, that we think if he had been left to himself he never would have condescended to lend himself to tfee expression of such abuse. He would have perceived that, as the proposer of Mr Arthur, he came there to make the best case he could for Mr Arthur, but not by abuse of the other candidate ; and the snappish answer he made when asked whether h a I 1 " 11 ® there to propose Mr Arthur 3? tq abuse Mr Hees, showed that he had not only flqmpletely lost hi? temper—but his matters H4S9: .It te a greas pity that a young politician h&i’etofora to be somewhat above the ordinary oaUbw*, and to have decent control of himself, should have made such a mistake as to exhibit himself under the influence of feelings the possession of which is usually denied, or at any rate concealed, by most men. This one unfortunate lapse, and the disclosure of such vulgar and undesirable failings, will destroy, for some time at least, the confidence in Mr Dunlop's fairness, and unim passioned coolness, which by his previous behaviour he was building up. Before ho again takes a hand in politics ha must learn that coolness is indispensable, that abuse is not argument, that invective and vituperation ate edge tools which will surely cut the hands of any but a cool and experienced workman, which he is not; and lastly that it is quite easy to forfeit the respect of thinking men without advancing yonr cause one whit.