The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1891.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 30, 8 September 1891, Page 2

The Feilding Star. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1891.

One of the natural results of the labour troubles, which have been such a curse to the world for the last few years, is now being felt in the small prices realised for raw material as compared with the years preceding. Cablegrams from London informs us that the Antwerp wool sales closed flat ; 800 bales of Australian wool were sold at from to Jd per lb below the prices realised at close of last wool series in London. The situation in the yn n.n n f H.f».t.ii i'i n or districts and otl ifci© ConLinent is very bad. This speaks for itself. One thing is evident : Tnere is a turn in the tide, and the day of those agitators who have been battening on the hardearned money of the true working man is now drawing to a close, while the latter has a bright hope that his self-imposed tyrants are about to be deposed and thrust back into obscurity.

The intelligence from Chili, given by the recent cablegrams is very reassuring. The financial difficulty is being met and overcome in a very practical and truly liberal way. The Junta has legalised the notes issued by President Balmaceda, but in order to inept such notes the banking accounts of loyalists have been confiscated. The fact that the Liberals are now the holders of Balmaceda's notes will at once explain the raison d' (re of the whole proceeding. It is satisfactory to know that the U nted States Government intend to officially recognise the Prousional Go\erunient.

In the course of an interesting article on the •' carpet- bagger " the Wesiport Nbws says:— '• Jt is impossible for a patriot lo work for less than £20 per month, paid regularly, and fenced in against the assaults of ob,stcacfiv^,..creditOKd. Tfae impecunious Liberal"* "legisla't .'or demands irow the public, as a ri^Jit, that he si lull be fed and eloth&J by tt«;m. He i/ibibtd

on fixing his own salary, or else will certainly make it unpleasant for the Ministry he follows. These things are natural enough, and the electors who chose carpet-baggers to represent them, have been treated just as they expected to be treated. The professional politician must get money somehow. He cannot live on Bellamy's credit, free railway passes, and an occasional throw-in as a Royal Commissioner to enquire about something or somebody." We hardly agree with our contemporary that the electors " expected to be treated " as they have been, and believe that at the next general election these political pests will be ignored altogether.