The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1882. THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 17, 12 August 1882, Page 2

The Feilding Star. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1882. THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

• "* At last the Opposition have mustered j up sufficient courage to make an ! attack on the Government by moving; a vote of want ot confidence ; but , according to their iisua mode of action this is not dune directly, but by an | amendment on the loan proposals of the Government, which amounts to jl ' vote of want ot confidence. They cannot offer any new policy to the country, hut simply desire to j-et sea's ; on the Treasur-v benches, because ' •• they do not approve of the loan pro- j posals ofthe Government." And this , is the result of nearly three months' ; squabbling" amongst themselves lor ; great things and small. At the i-ame , time there is something- plesv-ing' inj the frank and child-like manner in which' they are strivinsr for place;', they do not make even a pretence of i 'knowing, how to govern the country and conduct its affair financial business. This is no pretence, of" their -... They only want tire" places*** aitd the! pay: the ability to govern will- he j f_>und afterwards. lt T is .absurd fer j. the leaders of the Opposit oh (and they ' are many) to pretend to oppuse the! borrowing proposals ol the .Government, because, if they changed, places (which the Lord forbid) new loans would be in the market in a very short tithe, seeing- that, loans are "the breath of the. nostril-* " of the Ota»-o members. Mr Montoomery g-ave only a qualified as-i-nt. to the proposal that for the present there should he no more borrowing — that is to say, he supports his own amendment in a half-hearted way, which is eminently characteristic ot the whole conduct ofi the Opposition. It has been well !>aid I that they have 10 gbaoJcbow? £ .but they hope to create %ne ; by getting" the disintegrated members ot their party to temporarily sham *' order and j unity," and .pretend <to manage" the J countiy and carry out public works ; without any further increase to the j indebtedness of-tb,e-^*.onntry-. If they -.■et ihro'office it *w6ufd be eaty* to* change their principles, and, as we said before, issue a new loaA to v c.arjy |_ on for a year, alter which a 1 proposal for probably five or six millions would be made, the greater part, if not the whole, of Awliicl. > wbhld** * spent in the South Island. A miserable pittance of a few thousands would probably b_ 'doled'oat <4o l .«l.e ; North, with a sparing hand. The northern ■ members who vote against the Goyjeitn-j j ment in the present crisis, will vote ! against their own, and the i n teres tsj>f ! their constituents. If the Opposition are «nabl<**l j_q assume the reinsr ot Government through their unworthiness, a diy of reckoning will surely come, wheu they will'--bfe"-n*i_afe ! M*o : bitterly repent of the betrayal of their trust. 1 1 it were only that the'pfe^" sent. Government were retained in office to permit of the compjetion of the main trunk line from Wellii gton to Auckland, it should be a sufficient ! reason for the northern m.jhrbth-'to"; support the in. That the present Go [ -^«W«sWm*— S*?i_^«&i^^^2_n_'«^^_C M W*M_-<__ait*t.or« i «fc.-_*-;f-vernment have pu. the country into r a^ condition oi prosperity, unequalled'in j its history, car not be denied by the I leaders o£ the jOppasition^iii- 5 one of its strongest evidences is the greed for place displayed by them. We~Slt"" remember, to our sorrow, the loss^sustained by the <3olbfiy' • during * f he* regime of the Grey Governmei;t, when New Zealand politics and politicians" becaa-e a " b) r e-word and a reproach am^Tg thinatidjii.'' l£|s tob£hop£lj' Ive*will efchpe vl h'Sepexifton _fsuclr_. calamity, and tbat cau-.onJy,he <dpne by the present Goverfttaeiit rerauiing office. [Our readers wili be glad to notice by our telegraphic advices that If-jpos^tion, by a maiojrjtjr pf six J- ,.,,;.