A GREAT EFFORT.

Evening Star, Issue 4235, 22 September 1876, Page 4

A GREAT EFFORT.

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Mr Speaker and Gentlemen,—lt is with «onside[rail& (rClubtahcb that '• 1 put -myself forward as the champion of this, great cause a cause, ,f r iaay&iy, l the*'origin, and meaning,,,. o£ ( which, have , heeainft m ■afcS.i Jw«pg. •vor the ruined parapet of Loadoa Mwi this most lutercatmg fgbject had not been freely and fairly on. I should attb like, I eoy, ta see,thia, neither wpuld it to run js on onr mnst remam t ihabaoM[‘jlbug, as dqpjser( has moons playing skittles round him, andothe town clock of Dunedin keeps at variance with any knownotime. in - the Southern hemisphere. What we want,' Mr speaker, is justice pur €t simple. - If the deßizens-of-that thicklypopulated plac'6 commonly known as the Piako Swamp want a Main liquor law passed, should we, independent Britons, be bebarxed from giving a current, though small, coibof the realm,for refreshment? The thought is unworthy' of any but a Slave. Better, far better, wouid it be to cue a canal from the . Ocean Beach through Machin’a right-of-way (celebrated by Homer in his e/ief d’ceuvre “ (Jp in a balloon ” as the Devil’s half-acre) than to allow our .thoughts, 6ur actions, and our gullets’ to.be ruled by monopolists. Gentlemen, aa' my friend John* Milton, Esq., .pi* Boston* Mass, remarked to me, whue boripwingthe last note I had received for getting somebody to build the Western railways, “on.diheir own merits none are ever dumb/’ therefore I toay’ be excused for remarking that I~and I believe other members of this Houseware 7 paid too little; we are,' in fact, not paid at • all, What * country wohld in«nlt its rulers ! by the * paltry offer of LI6O ,a-year! If there were stealings it might be different j but some one always comes in and prevents anything of that sort, because he looks for them as his own proparty. Gentlemen, I find I have wandered IfOmmy subject; you must excuse me for ed deing oti account of my' being so'warmed pp with other matters—the hon. gentleman need not suggest whiskey, as that leverage has been denied me for some time by my doctor, and sternly refused, except on payment, by my landlord. And really in these degenerate daya it is uncommonly hard to place fairly before the public—or ‘Hansard’s’ staff, which is the.same thing—a really full and reliable account of onr doings in th™ wdktml mansion. But to resume. Let ns my our hands on our'bosoms, and ask onr•elves, in all honesty and good faith, the ■earthing question— ‘ ‘ To be, or not to bs?” l;tb:qW-tnat Mr Qbschen made use of the ■MO8 J #brds in the Imperial*' Parliament f hdt long ago, and therefore I haven’t the slightest' £ebm him.- .Ah - hon. »6mbcrH& aSfeedjne what my-nibtion is—amhim I reply that if he came here td ; go to sleep, OT. jread . the i paper, or, amuse himself Jp.; any manner, calculated to advance thhW interests of the Colony, he has coma to the right place; but if he thinks for a moment that he has the faintest right toquestion me about the affairs, of .-the country, to badger and brow-beat me m my course of duty,'ho is mistaken. I trust that the respect due to a man of my disccr unent and clearness of views will so shame him that he •Will Uever ask such a question again. We will now, Mr Speaker, come to the subject. Gentlemen—God bless my soul they’re all gone, and the Speaker is asleep.' I have saved another night. , Oh, my country, what thou ow’atmej.. .. ~ : - * ■"-i.