MENDACIOUS OPPOSITION ITS WORTH

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5769, 24 March 1876, Page 3

MENDACIOUS OPPOSITION ITS WORTH

T') tin 1 f'ditoi • Sir, The following s<Mitoiicc in ,n^ in t'i,W/. ><>'•' s UmiIm of toil iv (Tlmi. ila>).-" N> l >iint'_> ))im bijoii i)j>fiicil nj> in tin-. Pun nice l>y .my woiks ilono uuilei the m,!h. i iiv\ unl we doubt vciy rauc'i wliethor there 1^ .i *. nujli* aeie aililition.il m cultivation, beciuse of the Public Woiks and Immigration polity.' -o'),0 K ,u'i o i purih i. oil bct\vi <ri n «>i)'ji'l\i ml Pu\jity 1 • i v. the inriien.o block of \.ilr. >l)k- I m«l Ii.-hin I II i'd mjji, tho Viotoiia. Ville.,. tlie coach 101 1 1»etrti.cn T.uir.mga uid Xapiei, otir linn hoi I on T.iitpo, thi* opening of Ohii.emmi uiul T.iuu.i, sullioio'itly confci.ulict the fir^t pait of tho ibovo-tiuoted sentence ; anil, if I remembar li-jlitly, the 1'ii'ilic W'oi'cs" )>olicv led last yew toth 1 * cultivation of some 40,0)9 acres addition il in the W.iikito di-itnot .ilone. The locil no .vmp ipers hive tluoui;h country corieilioudents fiequently shown how greatly the uuds.ind bridges lcccntly mule in the N'oicli hive leil to the fencing ami cultivation of new tfiound. Who does not tcinembei how just liefoie Hir Juliui Vogol brought out tho Public "Woik- {.clicme, the "Colzx oil mm " ail dressed hundioiUof unemployed on the Bai rack I [ill, and how, day by day, tho same men besei,'od the Superintendent's offica (now occupied I believe, by Mr. Von der Hcydc) begging and ])raying for woik ? It might auit unscrupulous politicians to ignore those facts, and the contiast between those d.iys and tho present time, but I would ask any unprejudiced peison if it is ci edible tli.it this province could ha\e absorbed and continue* to nbsoib a gi eat stream of immigrants, and afford to pay them fair wages, xmless our farming operation! had been very greutly extended by maans of the public works policy. Sir, I for one believe in opposition, and care nothing for the person nil of Ministeis, provided there is ability coupled with an earnest desire for tho public good, but I caunot see how tho province js to be benefited by a grossly untruthful opposition which will eu-n and justly deserve tho contempt of the ne\t General A-^embly, if for nothing else than the hiiim it is calculated to tlo tho country amongst adjacent colonies and elsewhore. Tho old adago about " evil birds," overybody knows and thoy must bo very noxious fowls indeed that lejoice in a defilement that can only bo malicious, because they care nothing for tho result to tho country, piovided their deliberate misstatements can for tho timo damage those thoy have studiously maglined. — I tun, kc, A Country Settlkk.