Political

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 38, 26 September 1891, Page 2

Political

The history of the Session just closed is not one the colony can look back oh with any degree of satisfaction. On the contrary, it may be considered the saddest exhibition of wasted time and opportunities ever witnessed. Pledged to economy, the policy of the Government has been one of the lavish expenditure. Pledged to reduce taxation, taxation has been increased. Pledged to reorganise the civil service, they disorganised it by discharging old servants whose places they filled with proirges of their own. They began the session with the good wishes and • promised support of every respectable journal in the colony, and end it with almost every journal against them. With an overwhelming majority, they were unable to force even their own pet measures through the House. Fortunately for the welfare of the colony, and the safety of public and private property from coufiseation and spoliation, the members of the Legislative Council were true to their best traditious, and rejected innovations which were calculated only to benefit one class at the expense of the other. A Ministry composed of faddists has proved an utter failure so far, and no man can tell what the future may bring forth when the Government of the country remains in such weak hands.