Daily Circulation, 1500. The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5094, 2 October 1891, Page 2

Daily Circulation, 1500. The Oamaru Mail. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1891.

The Wellington Post has passed a vote of want of confidence in the Government. It says that the Government came into office under most favorable auspices and pledged to effect a number of reforms, and it professes to recount those reforms in a list specially prepared for the occasion from the writer's own brain. The Post's articles remind us strongly that newspaper articles are, after all, only written by editors, that editors are but men, and that there is a great deal of human nature about man. It is only when a journalist's identity is lost in national sentiment that his paper is worthy of respect. There are but few writers in the colony who have thus suiik their own personality, and the Post's editor is not one of them. That paper scolds and counsels and philosophises after its peculiar dry-as-dusfc fashion, but the public of Wellington heeds it not. In politics, though

it apes a great deal and assumes the airs of a dictator, it is like the Otago Daily Times, ; and other papers which shall be nameless, signally unsuccessful. Its patronage is fatal to aParliamentary candidate, and those whom it opposes secure the confidence of the electors. It is so petulant and exacting, that no public man can long enjoy its expressions of approval. It seems to expect that the Government or politicians shall do and have done everything that is right and nothing that is wrong, though it must know that even its immaculate self does not and cannot observe such a standard, and that the management of a State, like that of a paper, is governed very much by conflicting circumstances. The Post does not display that intelligence and fairness that it expects to be exercised by others when it details a sessional programme comprising all the elements necessary for the production of the millennium, pretends that the Government promised to carry all these measures, and makes the absurd assumption an excuse to abuse the Government. The Post blames the Government for not doing a hundred things a tithe of which has, in other countries, constituted the work of a generation. What does the Post expect to gain by its abuse of the Government ? Even supposing that it could influence the people's minds against the Government so that they would be driven from office, what then ? Does the Post think that the colony would secure administrators who could please all the friends that the Post has to serve in its worship of Mammon, or that the colony would be blessed with an administration that would be proof against the perversity and corruption of human nature—against the assaults of the world and the Devil V Colonists will be only too grateful for what little good they can get at the hands of the Government. At all events they will not regard with approval the diatribes of papers and people who blame the Government for not doing what they have done their best to i prevent them from doing. He is a wise man j who takes of the best he can get in this ! world and is thankful.