A Bankrupt Premier.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 61, 1 November 1887, Page 3

A Bankrupt Premier.

GRAVE CHARGES AGAINST PARKES. In reference to the. compromise come to by Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of Sew South Wales, with his creditors, a somewhat animated discussion took place in the Sydney Parliament on the position the Premier had been placed in. Mr M'Elhoue moved the adjournment of the House to call Attention to certain statements made in the newspapers which charged the Premier with taking certain gentlemen into the Cabinet as colleagues to tthom he owed large sums of money,

with altering the fiscal law of the country to suit the merchants of the city, and that in return they relieved him of his debts. He believed that several colleagues of the Premier would not be in office if it had not been for the money owing them by Sir Henry Parkes. The Premier said Anyone who occupied personally the position he did was open to be assailed by the meanest person in the country. Mr XPElhone had made a vile, inconclusive speech. Did honor consist in merely paying 20a in the pound? Were there not procuresses of girls for the basest purposes who paid 20s in the pound ? Were there not men who were guilty of the foulest crimes tinder heaven who had paid 20s in the pound. If misfortune comes upon a man, is that Aha time to misrepresent his fault ? Are things coming to this, that if he, or any other man, had relations with another, was that circumstance to prevent his enlisting liis services in the service of the country ? He repudiated such a cowardly and unworthy and unprincipled doctrine as that, which only sprang from a disordered and dishonest mind. He had given up everything and could do nothing more. He now stood before the world not worth a single shilling He had been in the great office of Premier for more-than ten years. He had sacrificed his health more than once for what he believed to be the good of the country, and yet he was to be libelled by being told by lawless men that he had sold his services.