The White Ribbon: FOR GOD AND HOME AND HUMANITY. Saturday, September 15 1906. The Parliamentary Programme

White Ribbon, Volume 12, Issue 136, 15 September 1906, Page 7

The White Ribbon: FOR GOD AND HOME AND HUMANITY. Saturday, September 15 1906. The Parliamentary Programme

The political outlook is decidedly promising. The Premier has by his choice of colleagues added both ability and integrity to the Party charged with the administration of the affairs of the Polony. And the Parliamentary programme set forth in the Budget is, without making any pretensions, certainly humanitarian in its trend. The

surest inns to establish a sinking fund for the repayment of non-prod urtivo loans, ami to make more stable provision for Kdueatinn ami Old Age Pensions by ear-marking Grown lands, savour of true thrift as well as due care for the human. The laud pro p >sals have evidently been framed with the object of giving the masses easy access to their rightful inheritance, the God-given earth. Reductions in postal and telegraph charges mean added comfort and convenience to the |>eople; and the loneliness of the buck-block settler and bis family will be shorn of half its terror by the extension to the outposts of civilisation of telephonic communication. The setting aside of a sufficiency of land for the Maoris will do somewhat to remove the sense of injury and wrong so long and justly felt by a large number of the Native race. Altogether, the Ward Ministry may be regarded as having entered upon its duties with a due sense of its responsibility for the happiness and true welfare of the |>eople.