WHAT HE WANTS?

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 45, 6 March 1896, Page 17

WHAT HE WANTS ?

£ir .Robert Etout \n ants " honest and able men at the head of affairs. ' " The ablest and best men U the head of tbe affairs of State." The present Government, in his opinion, "had done nothing for social reform — for the uplifting of the people." Its "only object was to keep in office." These are items as reported in the Post from a pre-tessional speech by Sir Kobert, who, of course, has only the uplifting of suffering humanity at heart. An ideal Government with Sir Robert as Premier and his henchman Mr Earnsiiaw as Ministerjof L abour would, we presume, contain the ablest and best men ! would contain no selfish office seeker, no incurable faddist, no political sciolist! Possibly

if Mr Seddon had not committed the unpardonable crime of excluding certain persons from the Cabinet, we should hear much less about the iniquity of the present occupants of the Treasury benches. One thing bir Robert again plainly showed in his Wellington speech : he is the uncompromising opponent of Catholic claims. The Master of a Grand Orient Lodge could not be anything else.