THE STATE OF THE STATE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11848, 22 July 1893, Page 2

THE STATE OF THE STATE.

« TO THE EDITOR. Sin,— According to the Press Association report of the Financial Debate, Sir Bobeit Stout concludes his speech by the following words :— " To preserve the good name of their Statesmen and pay them properly for their work." Coming events cast their shadows before them. Statesmen indeed! There's no such thing in the whole Colony worthy of the title. What is the state of the State ? Why more millions of National Debt than it can be fairly considered years old, unemployed in overy district, commercial depresson all over tho country, poverty in every town. A general, widespread feeling of insecurity of property, millions borrowed and spent in importing poverty, every criminal with as much voice in the Government of the country as tho best, tho most inclustrous, thrifty, law abiding setter in the country, a most unjust and madly extravagant payment of members and Ministers, Ac. And those who have brought this grand little country into this disgraceful state, are to be dubbed States- ' men ! Why, had but the Franchise been granted to women twenty years ago, had they been admitted as Members of the House, and finally half-a-dozen ancient dames ruled the country, they cnuld not have landed the country in the utterly false and ridiculous position we now find it in. No matter how silly tho old women are accused of being, they could never have made the many idiotic blunders o£ our so called Statesmen. Three good business men from tho Old Country, with no little axes of their own to grind, impartial, honest men, could govern New Zealand at a tenth of its present cost, with the grontest ease, and make a most prosperous nnd happy country of it. Our self-stiled Statesmen must make a good name, before wo avo asked to preserve such, instead of proving themselves the laughing stock of the rest oi the world. I am, &0., An om> SETTi,i;n.