The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 255, 2 November 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. WEDNESDA Y, NOVEMBER 2, 1870.

Having so warmly urged that a requisition should be prepared asking Mr. Vogel to b come a candidate tot the representation of a city electorate, we feel special satisfaction at the triumphant success which last night attended bis first meeting with his constituents. The crowded state of the hall, the character and position of those assembled, and the interest manifested in. the proeet dings, combined to make the meeting an unusual

one; and it was hard to resist the conviotion that the candidature of the Colonial Treasurer before a remote and rural constituencyJWould hare been a public loss. We had an impression that Auckland was pliblieispirited enough to protest against the do-nothing policy that would %r consign these magnificent islands to a

continuance of the position of a fifth-rate colony, for ever whii.ing and looking dismally into the future; and we are glad to see t^at it requires but a hand to touch the proper chord to awake a response that shows the spirits of colonist* to be as buoyant as is warranted by the boundless resources that are but awaiting development. This city is unmistakably in favour of the colonization scheme in its entirety. As we have often said, its individual parts, unaided, might be each disastrous. Immigration without employment, or public works without an increase of population to share increased taxation, would be an evil; while the spending ot millions to be gathered up by those who should take it elsewh-re to spend, in the absence of en effort to establish our own home industries, would be like pouring water into a sieve. We should pity, but, it is hard to not feel impatient with those who will persist in viewing the isolated parts of the scheme, and have not the capacity to form a comprehensive conception of the infer deppndence of its several parts and the complete in'entior. of the whole. That we wsnt money is undenied by anyone. That this want, with thf al s-nre of population, are the only tb.in»s pre venting the development cf our splendid resources, and the colony taking one of the foremost plac<s am ng the dependen cies, cannot be gsinsnid- That our credit will obtain that money to any extent we require need not be denied, for there are proo rs to our hands, and if it will not, no greater evil can result from the attempt ; while any increase to our settled producing population i>< in equal proportion a diminution of our taxation and of our individual indebtedness. But one of the most important portions of the colonizing scheme is that for the foslering of home industries by a readjustment of the Customs tariff. And though the novelty of the doctrines of protection in INew Zealand, and the narrow-minded-ness of those who dare not leave the groove in which they have been revolving, secured the defeat of this portion of the colonizing scheme in the General Assembly, theunmistakeable favor with which it was last night received by the intelligence and respectability of Auckland is an earnpst of its ultimate popularity in New Zealand. It is, doubtless, hard for those who have wholly changed their conditions of existence to.renounce long cherished habits of thought, and we should respect the feelings of the man who cannot see the wisdom of keeping his head cool at ni«ht in a semi-tropical climate because his grandfather wore a nightcap, .riut when we are told that where a man must pay a pound per annum of Customs' duties to support the state, it is a violation of principle if he is asked to pay this on his boots instead of on his hats, or for the food thht goes into his stomach instead of the coat that warms his hack, or that it would be deserving of reprobation if the duty which the late proposed tariff lilted off a man's sugar should be placed on his flour, we almost cease to feel respect for crotchets, and are inclined to resent the arguing as an impertinence offered to our common sense. We have no doubt that this, as well as the other features of the great scheme for lifting New Zealand out of the JSloughofDespondwi.il, when carefully studied, be universally hailed with satisfaction, and although last night the subject of the bread tax, as beinc the least likely to he popuUr in Auckland, from our not having a flour Browing dis triet.wasreceived with some disapprobation by the ignorant and unreflecting, we are confident that our city will soon show itself a very stronghold of " Protection."