POLITICAL CONJURORS.

Evening Star, Issue 7233, 8 June 1887, Page 1

POLITICAL CONJURORS.

TO THE EDITOE. Sie, —When Professor Baldwin held his audiences in rapt suspense while entertaining them nightly, we all thought he was a wonderful man. When we came to ourselves, we thought how easily we had been duped. Now, it was an open secret on the professor’s part that he was simply humbugging us. His art was to go on with the next trick before giving us time.to think. In a few weeks we shall be in the throes of political excitement, and our conjurors (the candidates) will entertain us with all aorta of pabulum simply to divert our atttention from the main issue, which must be retrenchment of the most drastic kind. 1 One can fancy Sir Robert addressing Dunedin East as if they were a jury, interspersing charming anecdotes of the pea and thimble trickster. On calm reflection one doubts whether Sir Julius—for his colleagues appear to be simply Ministerial marionettes—cares one jot about Freetrade or Protection providing he secures a tariff which gives him command of unlimited spending power. This has been his policy in the past, and so long as he remains in New Zealand it will be his policy of the future. What we want is political rest, and a Coalition Government chosenfrom the abjest men in New Zealand, with Sir John Hall as skipper, to pilot our fair Colony off the leeshore, whither she is drifting. This is no time for theoretical talking. —I am, etc., . Lumper. Dunedin, June 6.