CURIOUS RETRENCHMENT.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 613, 16 September 1909, Page 4

CURIOUS RETRENCHMENT.

, Sir,—ln your sub-leader'of September *7, on what might hfcve been; the lost three lines,' to wit, "the Government is furiously .trying: to save enough money to avert'a deficit," allow niq.to fully endorse this statement. Is it not a fact that moneys voted; by the Government last session ior ; tho carrying out of work on inany of the roads have been recently recalled to. Wellington, and that several .of tho offices of rtbo Roads Department havo or aro being closed, and this under 'the plea of-retrench-ment? This is a curious method''of reducing, the cost of administration. • of retrenchment;is cutting off, : audUhe Government; are' cutting off in every, sense of-the, word. Quttmg off the sot tiers from the roads, tho railways, the the loeked-up land. Gutting off * tho men that make the highways into tho land, ,and, in .consequence, cutting off the possibility of the settlor to exist. The development of the Irind, tho 'produce, the export,, in. fact,-the prosperity of tho country. Cutting oft -the capital .and making it seek other avenues ,in. other countries, where land can: ■be -out uincd with facilities for bartering tho produce. Tho unemployed, by making more unemployed. Progress is retarded, and in lieu ot,making'our finances, a credit, wo aro in disgrace, and tho worst is not yet.' Money may bo a-little more .easy this summer, but it'will bo ivorsothan. over next, winter. Tho banks -will not. ailqw thp most trifling accommodation', irad our. credit is bad in other countries. This re-' trettchment. scheme .means tho cutting 'off of the working man .and retaining tho services of highly-., paid - officials:. ..Cutting oft" ''"entirely of'ho servico that are essential' tb the ,lifo of, the Donunon. Agriculture; is our asset, ; and without it-we cannot possibly exist. Why.-are ,wo restrained from: taking' lip'-land?' because-. the flatterers, Tom, Dick', and Harry, must get-their J!3l!0 to £2000 per nnIs- it. qnly /or tho benefit of timeservers and flatterors: that this truly great retrenchment schemo was; inaugu-rated,-so tlpt'sufficient cash .may . bo--left for them- to, draw- their retaining';fee?r.) Another" name flatterer, is parasite,, and: I fail -to Ited by such' "' Ol " lni ° D ' tan ' bo . P oKi , bl y, : .!Kne : Tl lf ;.°«r. Government are for tho good ;of the ... >8 any law ' preventing thfcro curtailing-; 'oivri very- handSohiii alloiVances,?, Comparisons are: odions, btit'.-I Vwould -;Pj ease '' ;!° t know. 1 :|f. -any:'firm exists- 'that .X y thevmajority. of 'our-representatives more, than - JJISO- .per annum for working/all ;through. Wo live in a very material ffi-(?,7f? Ur fi GoTe J n , rac ? t ?, ro PiMting'from it, +1 ' • whole truth, and 'nothing but the. truth 19 now an. unknown quantity. All ® 1 - !, •'"id some of 4 the. aL are -large . that isomehoir they -never,:do seem' to get enough grinding. One di-eains of sincerity and.gets sophism. We having spent all now, confronted with a term oMean years, and S"fp'- e T ?t- i° sks'5 ks ' WiU v:e kiU the fa "«l ca,t - I - think-.pot.: In strict justice, .those tn^f Sl fh 0 i° r 1 he.tho first to eat.tho :husks. . Their.grossincornpotencv and.specibus promises would any-busr-To ,'ld of tho iSffi should ho treated .111 tho same way as tho noor few of■ dharlatans; On Auckland 4 "doa S Mora 'To™n S > A 'rr e P ° f lice Commission proved tp_ us? - A granting of-.any .old thiii" in .any olrt -ivoy for ; votesV In othe? words f 0 ? their spoil, rho. race is to the swift," and swift they, aro-of a surety. ■ I would 1m pleased to know; tho exact, number of deadheads we hivo torm to tell the truth, and your'paper has received its, reward: no moro Government ads for yoii until such times as-our Ministers be' MS» h * n * c^#n *: -'It- is.'-.an Acknowledged faot that your pap«r has the largest. circula: tion in tho Dominion,-and yet wo have'the colossal impudence, of the mi/hty wL ar ®o^ the better, for the public > a t large!™l aS, e°c, : 'September. 7. ~ '.