A Retronching Legislator of the Right Stamp.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 202, 7 May 1887, Page 6

A Retronching Legislator of the Right Stamp.

THE. nKAN TOy CUT DOWN THE GOVERNS! «.'S SAI»A.F*Y Mk A'j-i.hn, of is the stamp of s man we want, in, New Zealand to attack thiJ Covering's salary and other ex~ tn&vnganees. I»»i a \*gHMous speech lately against the wceessive s-ilaries paid to sovoi 'il otlicers, he said :— (lentloinvn defending the increase of Qhe snhuy of the Ministei to China fticm 12,000(1o1p. to 17,000 say thut the peopLe-of this great,, rich Government do not \yunt to starve their Ministers abroad. 1 b«ve heard a oiieat deal since I have be we here about ou.r rich ( Uwernment and the smrplus in the treasury. Whenever a raw! on the treasury is contemplated there is a. threat deal o£ tallc about the rich (iosenu'wml and the surplus. " I would a?k gentlemen who Iwlk. about our rich Ciovornment where it> inches and its surplus come from. It is from the taxation of fche people. Theni\ so long as these burdens are borne in a large- measure by the poor, away with the- cry of ' rich Government ' as a pretext for extravagant appropriations. If you will change yo.m system of taxation so that tilte Government will become rich from the abundance of the rich, I will meet you on a broad! and liberal system of appropriations. I would ask the gentkinau from North. Corolina (Mr Cox) to go down among: his constituents and ask ttie man who speeds two or three clays getting up his pine knots and as many more burning a barrel of tor, then hauls it twenty-five or thirty miles to market and sells it. for 4dols. 50 o Sdols invests this money in the necessaries of life for his family, most of which are heavily taxed, and a part of which taxes helps to pay the salary of the Minister of China - go ask him what ho thinks of a man starving to death on 12,000d015. a year. Or go to the girls as I saw them in your State last summer, spending an entire day picking huckleberries and chincapins, and on the dny following taking them some six 1 ov eight miles to town to soil tliom lor 2«3 qv

50 centh, as the marke* miglit- rule— ask them what thoy think of a* man -.starving to death on 12,000d015. a year. Go down ' amongst my constituents^ where a man works- hai'd thirteen months in itae yfcar, and by the aid of his wifo an 4 little children makes> 2uodols. worth of cotton, a jjortion of which goes to pay taxes— a«k him wfaat he i thinks of a man .starving fo^d-eatl* on a 1 salary of 12,000d015. a year. "Go 1o the poor .sewing, woimsai in Washington and New York C'l,y,,.who r as I have read within the last lew dn>y.s,->sew fxom twelve to fourteen hours a day without vest even. on the (Sabbath ; whofnrnSwbtf.heirown needleh, thread and wax, and hay*. families tosupj)ort. find only get D.oOdols.&week. Go afck tliem what they think of a iwu starving lodaalhwi 12,000d015. a year. Ho long as these people have to help bear un appro- ! ciable portion of the burdens of tha Government, so long as the Government, g^ts its riches mid its surplus in part from, this portion of our population, gentleman mu&t excuse me if I relnso to follow them .in, their i[)ropobition to lxuike extravagant appropriations^ They may call it pai simony, or demagogy - they catuiot f i ighten me ~<v.i th.such ap))elliitions. " T am going to fight it out on .this, line unless after a long ntay in Washington 1 imbibe the views of tho>e who consider themsehes broad-gauge statesmen — those who mistake voting away other people's mono} for mdividna-l liberality. Ak'rChairman, 1 eannoi surrender my views ov thein-te)-esl of the people who sent me here; to.follow, the recommendations of gentleraen wlio occu[)v hi>auiou.s rooms in building that co.st millions, vralk ou dee]) BniKhels carpebs, \\ ith ay many electi ie bells around them us theie are keys to a piano with which to summon attendants or me.sscngei.s vcvcj-n'iry their ordcis and to suj>ply their wants. "Mv Chaknian, if J had my WAiy. and could enfoivc it ou fche membci.- of this body, J would reqr.it e, uuch of them, to go home after March 4th and plant a crop, „md h<- nit, and (>lou<ih it,and 1 would coniine them in (ht I ']' lations and raiment to ,what they ic-alised fiom fjumiug. They would t'omi" bfick heie no\t Dr-efem-Ijci \A'tli OJi'i (^ittit tiuth <le''|,ly, im-pn---.d on then minds, and that ']- h<r.< the «,i 'Ht majoiity of the working p"ople <>t tin- nation cai n the mom v which the ( <o\ > i :m.< nt t-ik'^ honi thun 'j\ way or t'x'c.itiion. i liu'il it \\oul<l i.''aU« us a liltle vu)u. paiticul.n . aL le > *- ♦- until wo Kul iorgi'Ct^'n this c\peii« i nce. ih some whoaio ht-iy and who eoine iidnrjsimi'lar sui'i oundinp's '-eeid co ha\e done.' T'n, (hfimD,i!)-lhi' tnne of M\n>■yentleman from Mississippi lias expired \fr Allen, <»t -isMppi Mi C ■wirman, t J i i» t is a pit y, ior I had nh-ny othin- things of ote<it ltitoit'hL ttv riiy, hut a- anytime \\w- oxpH^l. and not a\ 'slung t> tiirther inti'juupt. rhv pn^vediiif,-. ot the (' ">tfmittee, 1 vi^ll'iet-iir" to thi" cloak i oom 'o leceive cong»atul,. jioiis^ [Piulonged lausri-iidjr and apj?K'n^e.]