SIR JULIUS VOGEL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5991, 28 July 1887, Page 3

SIR JULIUS YOGEL.

The magnificent defence made by Sir Julius last night at Ghiisteaurcli will prove one of the most electrifying incidents in the present political campaign. We exceedingly regret that we are unable from pressure «n our space, to give the telegraphic prdcis of it in full, but we strongly recommend our readers who nave not yefc read it, to study it as it appears in the columns of our contemporary, the Herald, this morning ; and we sincerely hope that in the interests of the public good, the speech will be reprinted in cistenso, and scattered broadcast over the land. We anticipated from the beginning of thia campaign that there would be a strong reaction. The tactics of the Hall« Ormond Party seemed to be to get up an excitement of wild kind, which, has proved to have been premature, and their writers on the PreßS were apparently incited to lash up the people until there has been a "roar" for retrenchment. The public had already come to see tlia hollownessof the tactics; Major Atkinson was renounced by hiß own constituents by a vote of want of confidence ; Mr Bruce'* Freetrade mission has been howled down by the excited people at Christchurch | and everywhere over the Colony — even near horne — we see that the public ara thoroughly aroused, and, sometinieß in their own rough way, are showing their determination that they shall be bamboozled no more. Sir Julius -Vogel's splendid speech -will give force to the reaction, and now we are sure the "war. will be carried into Africa." It is impossible for us adequately to review it. Some of its items of comparison between his Ministry and that of others appears in our other columns. But there is one affair to which Sir Julius did not refer at Chrietchurch, but -which we of Auckland may very fairly place in the forefront. That is the San Francisco mail service. That i& threatened now, and it is not amiss to remember that it is to Sir Julius Yogel we owe its conception, its growth, and its protection to this day ; and we do not hesitate to say that; with his fall or his exile from politics it; will lose its strongest and most uncompromising defender. ■

But to his speech of last night. Peoplo have been screaming the necessity of tearing down the Stout-Vogel Administration as a necessity of retrenchment, and th«* full force of public indignation has been turned against Sir Julius himself . Expel Sir Julius and restore Major Atkinson, and we shall have in power the great economist. To this Sir Julius replies, and truthfully so : " During nine years he had spent of borrowed money thirteen and a half millions, while Major AtkinEon in eight had spent fourteen millions and a quarter ; his yearly average was .£1,500,000; Major Al> kinson's .£1,780,000."

This conforms to the list of loaning which we recently published, the variation being that we gave what sums were a.uthorised, and this what sums were expended. We there showed Sir George Grey in ids administration responsible for seven and a half millions, whereas five of these millions were merely authorised by Parliament in the closing days of the Grey adminiatra. tion, and were actually borrowed and certainly spent, every farthing of them under the Atkinson administration. As a matter of fact, Major Atkinson has been a far great increaser of the public burthens than Sir Julius Yogel, and the claim for restoring him, Hall, and Ormond to the administration on the grounds of retrenchment is as ludicrous as it is indecent. But the absurdity, of the claim was capped when Sir Julius read extracts proving that Sir John Hall, Major Atkinson, and those who now denounce his policy, approved heartily then of what he had done.— Auckland Bell. July 20.

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