The Feilding Star. Published Daily. MONDAY, OCT. OCT. 1893. A PARALLEL.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 92, 16 October 1893, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Published Daily. MONDAY, OCT. OCT. 1893. A PARALLEL.

Human nature is much the samo on either side of the globe. In England we see the Liberal party there threatening the House of Lords with extinction, if not complete annihilation, because that body refused to pass the Home Rule Bill, while in thia colony the same fate is promised by our Liberals to our Legislative Council because they rejected the Railway Bill, and some other measures equally unreasonable. We do not intend to discuss the merits of the several measures thus temporarily disposed of. Our object now is to show that by their actions the English House of Lords and the New Zealand Legislative Council have in each case accomplished the objects of their being. The Home Rule Bill was not in accordance with the wishes and desires of a large section of the community of those most interested, while in New Zsaland the voice of public opinion, as represented by almost the whole of the members of the mercantile and farming communities, was against the resumption of the control of the railways by the Ministry. In both cases majorities were secured in the English House of Commons and the New Zealand House of Representatives by force of numbers who voted solely on party lines, and not on the main question as to whether the several measures were for the benefit of the people or absolutely the reverse. Lookers on see most of the game, and the men who were not engaged in the contests were able to take a calmer view of the questions debated than those contestants in the political arena, whose worst passions were excited by opposition and by strong party feeling. The idea of abolishing the Controlling Chambers, as they may be called, because they used their judgment is childish, to say the least of it. If a free people, as a whole, desire that any radical political change be effected, they generally cau accomplish their end by constitutional means. Revolutionary tactics are only adopted by a people whose claims to the title of free men are more than doub tf ul.