« Magwa bst Vrritas kt Prjsvalkbit. SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1887. SIR JULIUS YOGEL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1635, 13 August 1887, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1887. SIR JULIUS yOGEL.

Under this heading there appears m our present issue a short but very iustructive Press Association telegram. This states that Sir Julius Yogel denies the truth of certain rumours which have been industriously circulated m the Empire City, and telegraphed thence all over the colony. These rumours are to the effect that he had been offered the position of head of the Government Life Department, and that the Controller-General had been asked to resign m his favour. These rumours have doubtless been put into circulation by the enemies of Sir Julius Yogel. That Sij Julius has enemies there can be not the slightest doubt. We have previously pointed out that a dead set had been made by the Opposition at the Colonial Treasurer. The cause of this is not far to seek. His speeches show that Sir Julius Vogel's sympathies are not with the plutocrats, or, as they have been irreverently called, the "money bags," nor with the large moneyed companies, and certainly not with the big land monopolists, but with the farmers &yd working men of New Zealand — the backbone of the colony. It was m their inteiests, combined, however, with those of settlement and progress, that he proposed and carried that grand Public Works and Immigration Scheme } which has done so much ior the colony at large, and still more for those who now turn round and viper-like pursue with rancorous haste the man whose measures raised them, or at least, the gi eater proportion of them, from comparative poverty to unbounded affluence. Though this was a natural result of his Public Works Policy, Sir Julius never had any sympathy with the eolcnial millionaires. He is too farsighted and too large hearted not to know that government which lends to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, is not beneficial to the country m which it obtains. His speeches show that the grand and noble goal to which he aspires is " the greatest good of the greatest number." Yet this is the man whom the big capitalists, the land monoplists and the large runholders are now hounding down.

The electors will have an opportunity of listening to Sir Julius shortly when we think they ivill find his views tend m the direction we have indicated,