The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1888. Politics in a Nutshell

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 137, 19 June 1888, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1888. Politics in a Nutshell

«. «• TF.W all the King's horses and all the King's men put Hunvpty Dumpty together again? " The chief argument in support of a high Customs tariff is that money must be found ani some members think it the conclusive way of putting it ; but it must be remembered that th© Parliament of New Zealand ouly represents the suffrage and not fairly the intelligence of the country. If a man cannot send his son to college he doesn't, and if the country can't afford complete education for the masses, even the masses will have sense enough to be content with less for a time rather than lessen their employment, and double their expenses of living. In this manner some thousands a year may be saved. A writer I in the New Zealand Times also points out that the losing portion of the 1 Government railways are small off- \ shoots, or political lines, that are kept running more than is remunerative under fear of losing political support. ' If the Ministry would rise to the occasion and show courage to grasp these and other hydra-headed blots, reasonable people would be more ready to meet them, on proof of the superfluous outgoing having been stopped. If an outlying line of railway wont pay to run more than once a week, limit it to that, and in all other respects, educational or otherwise, let the coat be cut to smt the cloth ; and then, but not till then, will a rise in the tariff be approved by those outside of manufacturing rings or the centres of large towns. " Freetrade" is a grand principle, while " Protection" can be but an expedient, which may be carried to a suicidal extent if resorted to before all possible saving measures have been exhausted.