POLITICAL NOTES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4953, 30 August 1887, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

The affairs of the country aro in a terrible muddle avteing from a complicated and expensive system uf government and it requires tho services of well- educated, clear-headed, practical-minded men to bring ordor out of confusion. It is sublimely ridiculous to think of putting men of Mr Harkor'a stamp in the House, but we suppose thoro will bo plenty of Waipawa electors who will vote for him. A3k them why they support such a candidate they will reply l% Well, he is ono of us, do you see, and we aro g'int; to give him a show!" That is how so many nonentities get into Parliament, and why the country has gone to the do^s.— Napier Telegraph. Tho H. B. Herald Bays:— For pure effrontery, the pettiest of petty tyranny, wholesale duplicity, and a staunch adherence to tho gospel of humbug, no combination of public men that ever held office in Now Zealand can compare with the Ministry and their supporters. These may seem strong words to those who desiro to look with favor upon the StoutYogel Ministry, bub they can be proved from nearly every transaction in which the Government has boon engaged. — The Herald gives instances to prove this strong language. ! It isa poor country that depends on borrowed money for it 3 prosperity — a fact which Yogel now ignores. But not very long since he preached this truthful and temperate doctrine : <l lti3 a mistake to supuose that borrowed money is tho cause of prosperity. Long before the borrowed money was spent in any quantity after the policy of 1870 was proposed, the Colony was replete with progress." These were not idly spoken words. They constitute sentences in a carefully prepared Financial Statement delivered iti 1884, when Yogel | exalted public anticipation to the highest | pirmaclo by hia declaration that under hia fostering care the^counbry would "muse itself from its apathy and spring forward with leaps and bounds of progress." At a high Bchool presentation in Dur.edinthe other day, Mr Justice Williams spoke rather highly of tlv.> Parliament. He said its errors and faults wore not so much the fault of the men as of circumstances, saying the groat complaint— one of tho foremost complaints of the action of the Lo?islature of the past — has been that they have been too extravagant. "Well, if you were to have a legislature of an»els returned by constituents who hungered for railways, who panted for roads, and who thirsted for water races, if they had an unclean Lombard-street always ready with cash, and if members and Ministers were alike animated by the laws of nature, the first of which is self-preservation, you could hardly have anything else but extravagance." His Honor said it looked as if, instead of the three hoop pots being made ten hoop pots, it would so^n bo tho ten hoop pots reduced to three hoop pots it would soon be the ten hoop pots reduced to three hoop ones. All readers of Shakespeare will understand how apposite that is to the circumstances and prospects of the country.