NATIONAL EXTRAVAGANCE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11848, 22 July 1893, Page 1

NATIONAL EXTRAVAGANCE.

Not the least unwelcome legacy of the boom is the record of national extravagances which the present taxpayers are asked to take up and liquidate. The appalling expenditure, coupled with the revelations of extravagauces in various State departments, go far to prove that the past Victorian Governments have been actuated by a desire to gee how much money they could spend without counting the cost. What is true of Victoria largely applies to all Australia — the great business of maintaining a State has produced a larger expenditure than revenue. The cardinal principal of private business is to secure as large a return as possible on the outlay, but the majority of Australian Governments seem to have considered that prosperity was best assnrod Ity the reversal of the principal. Anyway, the individual is largely a gambler — human nature as a whole likes to spend money without considering whother or not it is going beyond its revenue. This disregard of engagements — this putting aside of responsibility extends even to the consideration of health. We start in life with a certain capital of physical au^ mental strougth like tho spendthrift who throws away his money, believing for a time that his will last for ever, the lyoiing man glorying in the possassion of"a fine constitution disregards* the danger signals that failing* health holds out to him from time to time. To speak in financial metaphor, he orerdraws his accourrt at the Bank of Health— he cotitinuesl his expenditure without securing ..a. revenue for his enfeebled system^ and by and by his body not only refuses to honour the extraordinary demands made upon it by civilisation, but is also unable to fit him to perform the simplest functions. Most cases of this kind aro caused by that scourage of civilisation, Liver and Kidney Disease, which is responsible for far moro mortality than any other cause. Warner's Safe Cure cures Liver Disease, HECAUSE IT HAS A SPECIFIC AND POSITIVE action on the i.iVEii, increasing the secretion and flow of bile, regulating its elaborations, removing unhealthy formations— iv fact, restoring its natural activity, without ■which good health is impossible. We wish to impress upon every person tho necessity of keeping the liver in a perfectly healthy condition, so that it jps|l^properly seperatc the albumii^BSg|sSWspts, as we^ as bne-duol^^^^^ faithful treatment wn3Spras£ftefTl^j|fe Cure is always successful. *" Warner's Safe Pills are also always to bVused.