POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 22, 11 September 1911, Page 5

POLITICAL.

THE BUDGET SPEECH. HoW differently the same thing may be viewed from different political standpoints is exemplified by two paragraphs which wo reproduce below.The “.New Zealand Times,” having studied Sir Joseph Ward’s utterances, arrives at the favourable conclusion that: “The Budget- now before tnt country is at once a reply and a challenge to criticism, an authoritative survey- of the national undertakings and a declaration pf future policy. Ox. its financial side the Budget shows a record, of advanced enterprise and prudent. administration. Oh its con stractive side initiative is_ revealed in the realm of,practical businesslike development blended with the, extension of humanitarian * principles.” TfiC“Dominion,’* 'however, seems much perturbed, and in its anger fires a whole broadside as iinder; —“It is the niost remarkable mixture of finance, ir relevancies, and bare-faced electioneering that has ever been presented i the people of New Zealand by a re-, sponsible Minister of the Crown under pretext of Reviewing the country, s finances and expounding the policy ol the political party in power. It if the last despairing effort of a leadci who, filled with terror and dismay at the growing signs of antagonism to his rule, seeks to pacify the populace win bribes and doles which come out o their own pockets.”,