The 'Breakfast Table' was decidedly Liberal.

The 'Evening Pulpit' was much given to politics, but held strictly to the motto which it had assumed;-- Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri and consequently had at all times the invaluable privilege of abusing what was being done, whether by one side or by the other.

A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.

Eulogy is invariably dull,--a fact that Mr Alf had discovered and had utilized.
Mr Alf had, moreover, discovered another fact.

Abuse from those who occasionally praise is considered to be personally offensive, and they who give personal offence will sometimes make the world too hot to hold them.