"TIME WE BEGAN TO THINK."

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 10

"TIME WE BEGAN TO THINK."

Sit,—Can you devise some scliomo for firingout of .Parliament tho. present Govern.ment,. look, stock, and barrel? Tho Head should bo found a placo in the English Parliament, 'some of his Ministers exported, and tho balance sent to their homes. From all parts of the -country.'there is a feeling springing up against the Ward Government and tho humiliating position ho left us in, in placing the Hon. Mr. Carroll in charge. The other day I was travelling Oiv the Mam •Trunk,.Mr. Carroll was .en route to a Maori meeting, and tho Ministerial carriage 'was put on. This' was filled'with other mombcrsof the Native race;. "When I went, to have my meal in, tho dining-car a. table;, was reserved for our Lord in Command, and while'we were starving for a meal, we had to wait long enongh to have ten;feeds before his lordship came with 'his bodyguard,.of warriors. Joking apart, facts are facts;. Under'which Act of Parliament is a travel- 1 ling Minister able to hold up a diniiig-tahle in-a public dining-car for an, indefinite period?., ,'.'-'■" ' .-. ~-' ;To come back to our Government—is it just ; or reasonablo to say, that your property'and mine is at the whim of, drip-man to'load with taxes, without even an,opportunity of. protesting? , To think. that the' Dominion, can bo mortgaged to tho extent of millions has now 1 a precedent, and is, to my mliid, dreadful. Unless'we show our protest in a .'practical manner somo man of, the future will go one better in seeking worldly gain, and mortgage this fair Dominion for ten millions.- In- the .-"game of life" there is a verse which contains the . following:— , ' , "Some play for money, spme.play for love , And some for worldly fame, -, . '."-But not ( until, the band's.played out ■ Can they count up.their. gaim"- : It is time we commenced to count our gain. —I am, etc., '.'''''■ '" • :• HONEST POLICY.