WOOL-GATHERING.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3212, 1 November 1867, Page 4

WOOL-GATHERING.

To the Editor of the Daily Southern Okois. Snt,— Let the gentlemen of the House of Bepresentatives and Legislatire Council ponder over your leader in your issue of the 28th in■tant, now that they have returned to their pastoral, agricultural, and mercantile pursuits, in time for the gathering in of the fleecy increase of their flocks, for the tillage and cultivation of the soil, and for a course of successful trading. In your esteemed paper you press upon your readers the fact that already Anglo-Saxon energy aud capital have been attracted by the rich land of South America; that the Argentine Eepublie already numbers 30,000 British subjects, the wcol produced having monopolised the French and German markets, to the exclusion of Cape wools. You further state that this same Anglo-Saxon energy meets "with encouragement to establish itself in Brazil, and is already pressing onwards through California to Mexico. Why should not Anglo-Saxon energy make headway in this colony P Are we too much governed, tied, and committed to red tape, so as to impede our healthy progress? What have these magnates in the Empire City been doing during their session— lending a helping hand to healthy progress, or learning and endeavouring to show and prove "how not to do it P" Bed tape, circumlocution, and overgovernment have gradually sapped our foundations, wasted our revenue from an innate idea that appearanoes had to be kept up, and from a stupid and senseless idea of equalling in importance almost the General Government, with all the departments, staff officials, and red tape. Xet our representatives ponder over these remarks, and whilst busily engaged in commercial, agricultural, and pastoral pursuits, may they se«more clearly how to promote trade and commerce, free it from trammels, increase the cultivation of the cereals to enable us to be more self-supporting than we are; and by introducing Anglo-Saxon energy to the bush, to the tea-tree and fern, we may steadily plod onwards in usefulness and productiveness; to happier times which bring about greater prosperity.— l am, See. , Esibot.