THE COMING MAN.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 367, 20 June 1884, Page 2

THE COMING MAN.

The speech, made by Sir J^j-ius Voglel at Asliburton, though o£ great leajftfch, is the raobt readable political utterance we uave seen for many a day. bir Julius, like Bismarck, has a horrpr of eloquence. He speaks right on, with good fcasje no do,ubt;, with vigor also,: and an abseaee pt oil ensjy.en.ess that is rarely met ; but still, while ?eadjj?& one . feels that he only speaks i9F '& „^e of what he has to ,. r ..y, aud uot -)W *fc« e°\ s P eakln S..V^iuv sjoine cuiupiiaien,tar-y-nittirtJnces to ,„ .. Vl .un.-uu. 'lit ga-.e'u caiVltUi daaiil /. all u'urtorihy mouveh Uj at had been -u- s t'^ea iur iiis wish to eater ±*arlia.iiont. -iiti j.\oiu pared hiaiocii to Lhu.old may wixu got solicited in a race between tiie steamer she wats uu. a-n.d anotuer that sue cried oui, " Gapuiu, tui'u'.v })}J o-itae tiiA), if it will help yell, on a bif..' lie tt'&s vvilliag tu throw Ins bacoh'oh tli> tire to heipi^ev Zealand. He e-xplaineu his desire to enter into polities at- Home. He loved the colonies, s&ml wished to ai« and abet the party that valued the coluxiiO6 and wished to attach theoa £o tlie Empire. It was only as a colonist thut. he w-:nted to got into the House of Coin .-km.-;. Hi'^.i.c.'U-.y i;i.. . . = ■-■* n

land, and disclaimed being the originate pf them bhase}£f hut he stowed the wa-

fitness\of th ; e>j)rov,inees to build railways, and the N^pe^Jgi^y '^w the abolition before his sehejmef-'c^uld'fbe carried out. He insfistedr-atfdi rightly too\ that his scheme was-tQ inake the jsjnd benefited liable^ guarantee^injteresfc ion the cost of all tfuty lie railways.! lie was not! responsible fot the 1 repealing of that 'saving clause by' 1/hev greed, of landowners. He objected > to' the sal^o£.,the^lrailways, and toj»he proposed non-political board. He is confident that the railways are a good property for the State. He also thought it necessary =to clear himself in the. matter of borrowing. He says he borrowed for the sake of the works that he wanted to' carry out. But his successors have borrowed fol' the sake of keeping, up,expenditure. iThat he utterly condemned, and no doubt it is a rotten system ; but it is very Questionable whether Sir Julius would not have done it had he been in powers ajnd had he seen that if he did hot borrow the people would put in somebody who would. But he is in an enviable position in that' respect" £ he "ca'n.rcjon- ' demn wliat may even be the necessary ' consequence oi: what he did, and assure the coloijiy that he didn't do it, and would not have done it, and will,_ even as ii is, almost, undo it. He went onto condemn thr style in which Native lauds have been- administered. He had had a bill drawn making the same provisions as the Bill promised in the Governor's Speech. '. It was his measure, even now, but it was sir years behind his time. He claimed also to have been the means of passing through the House of Commons the Inscribed Stock Act, according towhich the Bank of England negotiates the loans of the colony. This Act, he said, quoting Major Atkinson, saved the colony L§o,ooo a year. , These and several other claims to the consideration of colonists he put- forward with all the modesty that would be desired. He said that during eleven years he had only received L27.000 from the public chest. This included trips to England and Australia. The services he has rendered would, he averred, 'have cost' the. cbldny ten times as much had they been rendered in the usual way by English agents, etc. What is, however, the most important part of his speech is the statement that should he have responsibility thrust upon him in Parliament he would be prepared to remain in the colony. This in view of recent events is a pregnant statement , . , • ' ■• < <■>::./ . : ; .'„ i;v r i ■' '■;