Mr Macarthur's Speech Reviewed

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 20, 2 August 1887, Page 3

Mr Macarthur's Speech Reviewed

THieOtagoiiPaily Times, comment r^ 'r.fag onltfr'Macarthu^* reVseat.npeecl| at Pahnew^jn, saysl-^^ A f ull report of a speech delivered by r Mr D/ H. r IfocatthuVwho was -ifietoiber for ;tiie district ibf Manawatu ia the last Parand ia/again * candidate; foi ihe same'seat, has reached'uW A|dong •2: tbe^ large^^ batch' of'he'w'hienioers Who entered Parhliment in 1884, Mr Mac : arthur.ftt tfnee; took up a ver^resMct , able 1 position,' and he- h*^ c '^alhertlian' ! iost as time went jon. Occupying in .private; lif e.a i^ponsibliE position as iinanager -.;ol a large land ©ettlement company^ his business hak its havo been Suable to hint feom the teginning ; white his practjeal -.; knowledge of local; government |ias 1 iiwsn him in the House the .character , 5f a* authority on that important -^ wabject. It is beßeved that tojfo * Mafearthur the Government is l^ggj A '* indebted for the main lines of the Government Loans to Local .Bodies Act, of 1886, which putslocalboiTOWinirona footing that is, reason itself compared to the rejected proposals of ' the preceding year. The 'attitude jof Mr Macarthur is^ on© of /__ostilityjtO tke Government, - bnt his preseint, npeech is more devoted to fye adro cacy of economy and retrtnchiiwnt, ■y amd hetjays litde of party bias Oho 1 of the neatest pointo made by Mr y Macarthur i 8 nis demonstiwition: of]the % i fact c t6i* on their own . showSnig thej Customs taxation: proppsalspof Wnt v were entirely utfne^ess^. 1 AJt^r i • making certain rf^ucttdna'^hd sayinM. abont whifcll^ %e v Myd'bJwd so S& Jnlids rOsfimated his purren? year at V £4,071,304 ; ,and ithp reyenue,: ind^ittp i, :. ing/all l&ua' T now i^taxatio^^at : , '.P,ia*^pilitta . imo^ngJaA antfeipatM, i *ttTphm bf?^MJßßp*-») most-miiustifi^ able proceedings as wOjpoinited out at •A the time/ Looking ti^the iqaagnitttde '"^f'fke &^tiopp ; p;Wp>Balß* ;.#Mch dd- ' i»nded £l«^^ofromCuj&tome alone, it waa- pot ; jcaev fa. cay* wkormn ymk^Mym^^^^^^ aurplus. ; fte_fl9.at any* ratowaa JB4;-; .taken oufrJof the. :i pocketabf the peopleii . Mr Macarthhr, founding hia argument dn Sir Robert's ' ->' s apeyclt^ai >'jSSk l Old j^i;^urch, '" is i[ 4«ick W^embfistiate jfjepm. •» t^hat thle» " whole n C^f»maPlsxafion ( ivrasT reaUy /^tmnfeMaMy % —>- iii' /the'.p Financial; '.fit^wntjof 1887, afferf detailing Ms; • . revenue proposals and ibe mbney he P wantedi- to -expeiw^ Sir Julius 1 ; Voge|l _3huwed:a surplus of £84,000: i Here, was £84,000 which was totally uhfnii^essaiy^ ai^Sir K -Stout'rih his ' Dunedin apeech'ias' aaid/ t^at' the Cabinet after i. week's dbKbOration •JW& found that ithey^^ 6pidd7fivther Retrench 'tb the extent loti £ 100,000;. *T_iere iwero thus/ £184,00.0 .iwhich coiiid.be taken off the. Estimatea, and which amounted to the whole of the Customs taxation propo^od.' In other words, at a time of gi-eat depression and difficulty, heavy taxation was to te imposed in order : to . produce a waste surplus of £84,000. /In _ &c meantime the possibility of retrenchpjiieikt to j the extent of £100,000: was Poyer^ked. Xhe retrenchment, nnd Ithe : aureus together, wipe out the y&holo **t> the Gostoma taxation: Had thia Government actually practised the now-promised retrenchment and. left t^Cusfoihs as they were, the revenue and expenditiwe wbuW'hi^'balan^od. _!'.._"_. W« agree witk Mr a^tlrar, that '■ml^J.vi' lw^^'viia, Government that cau peree^yO : t^e a^ty for retrenchment,' and aro/hot so! ready to ' imppaeT^ taxation . .which, \ onj their. Jowa J^Wf^^P^^^i! 1 F 6"! quired." y A■. yyi -Y-y-i -y I