The Decadence of Parliament

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 53, 21 October 1890, Page 4

The Decadence of Parliament

Is it^npi sad to .hea^. from^ Mr Oniinnd, Mr 1 Bryce, and others so luuch afiout .•**' tne debadeuce" of our Legislature. is it true? Was t he~iSsF"Krllament really worse than its p^ecedeslsora,! } of .which Messrs Bryte ( |afi4!"6rniQ^d.,-wer.e not only memt'ers^.but'.^oi 'many years Ministers o^We' Crown also? They, and uotihe»)ast Parliament got the colony snto v iW tigfrt place out of which we are^vtng to, pull" it.. , Let, them re-j»dnt-anaf'confeßß their own sins before thejr^uture tp pose 1 in ainew guise^ of wis^oipQ and purity befpre a = public mucH'inore watchful and.intpUigent ihan^tHej sjigposQ., As to:, personal' behaviour,' l«t anyone read the short, but graphic account of the'epeeting oi the fiftjtf Parliament, "in tke d^ys of tiie jgikatb, 1 -^ giveo m Moss's School History rat page 138. It sat ! foif 'three mouths, which * all legislation was completely blocked. ThY doors were locked to prevent. r the. Q-ovy-fnor eendingx;in a' pfwlaMation ofprbro-; gatieii^">Brie member's 1 hat was knocked off, and his ribs punched^ and language used of a kind that woulff nfofc *be toierated in these j4< deSaldet^fce'* ; (JS^b. : .Let r ' theta read^ Tfflx l^evairB 'Speech, Augiist 17th > 1854^. a8j|iT|Ba m^ "^aneaxd" ;of ithatdate; j Nq niemberrio^r would dare: to arepr^i Me^ffeylrnpr , M* with ftakingl -a coward felon to his breast," as an- - adviser: — shey will .see ;that ? what«verilhei trouble titere may be this * l decajieiiceV*^ lf^here^ any in the r grandiloquent- cryj v is not ; shown in the beEar lour of ,the present meri nor in their -^aea^uxes,^ although; there is •■ doubiws^ample fq»r .iuiprovexnent m Dotnt-^(E^chang».)