A LAST WORD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8082, 24 September 1887, Page 5

A LAST WORD.

Ik politics, as in private affairs, ignorance, incompetence, and wrong entaii inevitable punishment—results. Tbe mandates of fata are inexorable. Thus, whether Stout and his colleagues are now returned or not, their ultimate doom as a Ministry, and individually as political missionaries of disaster, is certain. The unprincipled impudence of Stout in proclaiming protection as " a species of robbery by the arm of the law," and adopting it as the platform of the Ministry, and his effrontery in writing that poor laws are also " a species of robbery by the arm of the law and orowing over hi« charitable aid legislation as a great Ministerial achievement, are indeed startling, but, comparatively, minor matters. The major I have exposed. Stout has yet to learn first principles—the difference between right and wrong ; and to realise that his verbosity and impudence will not save him from execration and political oblivion, as the nominal head of a Ministry which has brought grave disaster and misery, and sown the seeds of more.

With VSjel, Stout, and Ballance to condemn, there is no need to descend to the Ministerial tail—Tola. It is therefore, unnecessary to comment on the fact that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Electors should beware; by their votes on Monday they either prolong disaster until it probably become individual ruin, or they give themselves, and thereby their wives and children, their hearths and homes, a chance. Wisdom will inevitably assert herself, but It may be too late for many. 24th September, 1887. K. Laishley.