TIME TO TAKE OFF THE GLOVES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 929, 23 September 1910, Page 6

TIME TO TAKE OFF THE GLOVES.

_ Sir,—You may not-agrco with me, but:• •' • ■ T hope that in a broad public.spirit you 1;,/ /. will permit mo ; to thab the-country' : is omy doubtiully advanmged • the methods at times pursue#. by ; his Jlaj-' . ©styV present Opposition; -It was, tor -' ■ instance, apparently conceded last night,' - alter, as- .tiie Minister -tor Public - Works v : would e say, \'the • usual/ tirade," that the Opposition would assent to pas 9 a half- .. " V mulionv loan Bill for the installation' of .* : - and this .was: agreed- to while'there was 1 ho well-devised \or authoritative' v \n. scheme; before : the-.House; ■ ,Nay,.; while - seemingly the {-.Government . itself 'waa- ;• without actual knowledge of what'was to - - ; "r----fee done and; without an idea l as : to tlxo cost. •. -v.../ vA)f -what advantage, ; then, 'are;'these'in- • • ••' effechvo protests? They••are/largely : hack-. ' neyed,, and .really; 'seem delivered" to: assist ■"/'■ the kill time until, in the •• ■ dosing days of the. session, Ministers'- can\>. force their,.., 'unexamined Bstimates .through,.-lorVattUis later stage\votea V! •. . • which reek;with- waste, are'passed'ina re^etteible;.spirit, of; political complac- K , ency, .The;long, struggle against.' .whelming numerical strength .'of; their. oj> V'';' : ~ >v ponents may-have : induced- weariness' and desfjohdency in, Opposition- ranks.'-:: Yet it only Opposition is inia' : very strong-position witu the country; to- ! day.? lt\.thp» so^callecl,; < ;dumb^ present. Government. supporters; :.were>v ih /-'•'/?., opposition; vwith the numerical ', sti'eiigth': ' of, the present Opposition; - and" ?P c fr; a case" as ;has. Existed; ;every year, for '.i----the;.last; twenty; • they 'would i make .:thG,/r-: : '- ;: l i countryrih'g "withits - wrongs. •'They'' - - .'' would,v.l, niakej the' j the '' wastey.^ I?- ? '.public funds for; political • reward '. Avhicii'is'going en,.arid.would:takesuch)•/ a;.decided stand as would; preyeritjtHe .pas-sageof-vbtes-.which. are now; dexteriously $::; • got through 4 a wearied House iii-tlie small ' '- hours;—l anv : etc.; *■-v v 1 > :-v « . OBSERVES. -September. 21.,:;: