The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, The Morning News. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1873.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1199, 26 November 1873, Page 2

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, The Morning News.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1873.

For the cause that lacks assistance, ForHhe wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, ■ And the Rood that we can do

Without intending to disparage the choice made by the electors of City East we must

record our sincere regret that the late Provincial Secretary has not been chosen to represent them in the Provincial Council, It has been owing to the almost superhuman efforts" made by some other candidates and their supporters, and to the circumstance that almost every one believed that Mr Lusk's return was sure. However, the ballot-box has decreed that it should be otherwise, and we do not hesitate to say that the loss is that of the province and of the City East, and not of Mr Lusk. That that gentleman's absence will be injuriously felt in the new Council will be admitted by all but those who, blinded by ignorant passion against the Education tax, ignore everything but the one thing uppermost in the mind for tho hour. His familiarity with all the affairs of the province would have been of incalculable benefit in assisting the deliberations of a Council in which such a very large proportion of members must for a considerable time be but feeling their way among unfamiliar details j and we arc confident that his generous and chivalrous assistance would have been cheerfully ren_ dered to those entrusted with the reins of authority which he had himself so long held However, Mr Lusk has fallen the first victim that is required to consecrate the introduction of direct taxation. The necessity for having increased taxes is not of his creation.

Every one outside of tho ignorant and unreflecting rabble knows that increased and heavy taxation is imminent and un_ avoidable ; and every one that knows anything knows that tho Ministry or the Minister that is called on to first make the mob foci this must prepare for popular animosity.. The brutal instinct g of the rabble, like those of the other lower, animals, impel them only to kick blindly against what annoys j but those who have had the enjoyment of throwing Mr Lusk over will have abundant opportunity for exhibiting their fractiousness ; and we can telj them that the Education rate is not all eabite to tho goadings and the prickings of taxation under which they will soon roar and bellow. However a Council ia being now elected even while the public are wincing under the first twinges of direct taxation. Stupendous promises havo been made as to the doing away with taxation—promises which tho golemouches have freely swallowed. We shall see what will be the result. The Council may not indeed grapple with the difficulty. The province may throw up the sponge, and throw itself on the colony, 1 and the result will be, as was well described by a candidate to-day, that the General Assembly will impose a special taxation on the Auckland province for the support of its own' institutions. What will the "free and independent" then do? Resist ? Bah! However, Mr Lusk, the £rst to honestly admit, the necessity of the

cast-, and the first to give a complete ■Hid effective system of education to this pi-ovmeo, has now paid the penalty. The sacrifice is complete. But ix very short time will suffice. Ignorant and stupid passion will give place to reason. The fine promises that have caught gudgeons will £urn to moonshine, and the eyes of the province will yet revert to Mr Lusk.