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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2203, 11 July 1910, Page 5

We had lately two remarkable speeches in public (says the Oamaru Mail ”) from men at the different poles of the social system of the Dominion. They arc Mr Beauchamp (the president of the Bank of New Zealand), and the Hon. Mr Paul (of the Legislative Council). Both referred to the legislation of the Dominion, so much of it as has been described on all sides as experimental. Mr Beauchamp, before his shareholders, stopped short of the ostensible end of his remarks, but he left bis audience in no doubt as to his sentiments. His warning against the unsettling effect of the financial legislation was plain. How the chairman could have found it right to make the remarks that he did, suggestive of dangerous legislation, must be a puzzle to himself and his friends. That they were most improper remarks for a man in his position to make is as undeniable as that they were utterly wrong. The speech of Mr Paid, contributed to the debate on the address in the Legislative Council, enables one to understand the reason why utterances like those of the Bank President are regarded throughout the Dominion with ridicule. Mr Paul, in defending the Arbitration Court, spoke with great moderation and a very good grasp of the whole question of the relations between Capital and Labor. While eager to obtain all possible concessions for Labor by right, Mr Paul spoke with clear understanding of the diilicullies of the subject, and with a practical good sense worthy of the best education. Mr Paul has from the first proclaimed himself an evolutionist; never by any chance has he favored movement by revolution ; anil never has he dogmatised about a situation that is found puzzling by the oldest heads. As a young man at the head of the Labor ranks these sentiments not only do infinite credit to Mr Paul himself, but they enable the Dominion to realise the levelheadedness of Labor. Mr Paul belongs to and is a product of the Labor class which lias worked with the Liberal party from the beginning and with it has placed a mass of legislation on the Statute Book with vast benefit to the public interest instead of the disastrous results that shallow thinkers of the financial persuasion insist on predicting in face of the facts pointing to the contrary. “Our politicians have their fling, Of course,” said Dismal Dan “ But can’t agree on anything. Bcshrcw me if they can !” Said Cheerful Charles “You’ve got the blues ; But needn’t make things bluer ! They all agree to take their screws. And Woods’ Peppermint Cure,"