Candidates m Favour of a State Bank.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 621, 22 November 1890, Page 7

Candidates m Favour of a State Bank.

A State JBank in New Zealand would solve all our financial difficulties, public and private, and it is therefore of importance to know what candidates favour tnis great reform. It will also be interesting to mention that in 1847 Sir George Grey intruduood a system of State Banking in this colony. Again, in 1886, the House of Representatives passed resolutions in favour of a State Bank, which were moved by the late Hon. John Bathgate ; but owing to certain influences, both thet-e efforts to establish a rftate Bank m -New Zealand failed. Sir Julius Yogel once deolared in the House of Eeps. that it was ' the duty of the State to control the currency and be the sole issuer of paper money.' That gentleman further declared that ' the amount of paper in circulation would be equivalent to a loan of that amount to the State, without interest.' Think of what a grand relief that would be I The following candidates, and perhaps more whom 1 have not observed, have promised to vote for a Siate Bank of New Zealand : — Sir Geo. Grey Auckland Joseph Greenwood Eden E. H. Taylor Ttiauaes J M. Twomey Tiraaru J. M. Verrall Cunstchurch W. J. Napier (?) W. L. Rees Auckland Arthur Desmond (?) Verily I say unto you, a State Bank candidate shall hardly enter into the House of Representatives, so the supporters of the gentlemen named had better exert all their energies if they wish to have good candidates returned. The State Bank question is one that must soon be pressed upon the minds of those in power, who are too much in favour of those chartered robbers of the people, called bankers.

A Labour candidate will be brought out for Parnell, and will probably be successful.. .... ....

After consulting with my friends,' is sometimes with candidates a euphemism for ' After an interview in the Sank parlour.'

Bay of Islands is the best contested seat in the colony — Lundon, Coutts, Houston, Tronnson and Dargavill are all in the field.

Of candidates in the field aY over the colony 42 are Government, supporters and 7o are Oppositionists of different shades of opinion.

Good out of evil ! The anti-L tbour party are jubilan* tly declaring that the strike will win the elections, for it has made everybody sick of ' the working man.' That remains to be seen.

The four W.s for city electors— Wealth, Worth, Wisdom, aud Wallis ! The old doctor is really too modeafc j be ought, to have, added a fifth— Wit. The doctor's humour gives the lie to the English libel that Scotchmen can neither make nor see a joke.

' My sheep hear my voice ; and they follow me ' was a conspicuous motto over Mitchelson's head at his meeting 1 at Kingsland. I saw a lot of the ' sheep ' there — a certain Ewe (ington), and also the Shepherd, all ready to cry ,baa when the bell" wether bleated. They never seem toTyerl

Mr Taylor, the labour oandidate for Thames, has declared in f aypur of a State Bank.

The Sir 'Arry party confidently anticipate victory at the coming election.

Mr J. C. Fivth will arrive in N. Z. about election time. 'Twould be a pleasant surprise if he found himself M.H.S., on lauding.

A BlacklkgJslative Assembly — the ''N.S.W. Parliament. Mr Crick, i'or calling his fellow-members blacklegs, haß bee,n kicked out. ..'

Mr Geo. Fisher's opponents tried to make capital out of the fact that two of his sonn were free laboui'ers on the s.s. Southern Cros,- during the strike. Mr*T?isher's reply ia : — ' As soon as he found they .had gone, "he telegraphed to the captain of the steamer at Napier, demanding that the two boys should be discharged, as they were under age, and left home without-, hit; permission. They were discharged and came back as soon as they could.'

The Wellington Post publishes the following advice to working men, who may be bribed to vote for antiLabour candidates : — Take their money and drink their beer, Yet keep through all a conscience clear ; A nd wh-n the polling day comes round Then exorcise your judgment sound, Until such tricksters far and near Are sent to rest for many a year.