PARTY GOVERNMENT.

New Zealand Times, Volume LV, Issue 9968, 1 August 1893, Page 3

PARTY GOVERNMENT.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sjb,—ln yesterday’s issue of your paper yon make a noble effort to defend a die. credited and moribund system of Government Even you admit tbat Party Govern' ment is fall of oviis, and the only redeeming feature yon point oat is 1 that it keeps Parliamentary life vigorous. 1 If vigour means stupid accusations levelled against former Governments as dead as Qieen Anne, attempts to justify evil done io tho present by evil done in the past, or coarse attempts to wound the feelings of political opponents ; if vigour means groso abuse, envy, hatred, mali.e and all uncharitabieuees ; if it means two-thirds of the time wasted in idle talk and the rest misspent in hastily passing measures in such a faulty condition tbat they have continually tn mend and patch them up again in succeeding sessions, then the upholders of the present system are no donbt right. The term politician ia no longer even a matter of reproach,

it has become a matter of indifference. he ‘ unthinking ’ portion of the community about every throe years goes mad for a few days, not even over moo, instead of over measures, but over now bats and long beers. The ‘frfeacd independent ’ pubs hla voting paper into the slot, and the tigare moves Its as before. The thinking portion hae long at.o found out that the only difference between the two parties is as to who shall hold the mone>*bage, the jobs and the perquisites. The * Ins * stick to them with barnae'e-like tenacity, and the ‘Outs’ are frantically struggling to replace the former. ‘Half the cleverest men In the country prevent the other half from doing any good.’ It is madness of the many for the benefit of the few. Party Government is a festering body, and ought to be catted away by the dustman out of sight and smell of living men. Space will not permit to add more. Uemocr*cy is a grand thing, but a benevolent despotism is preferable to an uneducated democracy.—l am, <ko., G. A. Scirrca. Wellington, July 30.