In plain words, Mr Winter assured his country audiences, Great Britain had sold them before, and she would sell them again.

He stood there before them as loyal to British connection as any man.

He addressed a public as loyal to British connection as any public.

BUT--once bitten twice shy.
Horace Williams might riddle such arguments from end to end in the next day's Express, but if there is a thing that we enjoy in the country, it is having the dodges of Government shown up with ignominy, and Mr Winter found his account in this historic parallel.
Nothing could have been more serious in public than his line of defence against the danger that menaced, but in friendly ears Mr Winter derided it as a practical possibility, like the Liberals, Young and Windle.
"It seems to me," he said, talking to Octavius Milburn, "that the important thing at present is the party attitude to the disposition of Crown lands and to Government-made railways.

As for this racket of Wallingham's, it has about as much in it as an empty bun-bag.