MR H. ALLWRIGHT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2241, 4 May 1881, Page 3

MR H. ALLWRIGHT.

To the hditor of the Globe. Sib, — Sound criticiam ia the life of politics. There are fourteen points in the- Lyttelton speech of Mr AUwright. (a) He did not desert Sir Qeorgo Grey. Answer : Undoubtedly he was elected on the Grey ticket, and yet, by his own confession, disqualified Grey on the Local Elections Statute, which did not apply, instead of on the Assembly Statute. (b) He supported true Liberal measures. Answer : No ! Liberal measures are :—(1) Land for the people ; (2) people for the land ; (3) equal taxation ; (4) no class favors ; (5) representation by numbers ; (6) payment of members ; (7) yearly elections. All of these he opposes in his speech, as we 'shall see. (c) Calls hitnsolf a representative of working men. Answer : No ! He and Mr Andrews are capitalists, and both are large employers of labor, (d) Grey imported shiploads of immigrants. Answer : Ship-loads of taxpayers, if they were only settled on the land, (e) Grey ordered 6000 able-bodied men. Answer: To settle the Natives without soldiers. The soldiers cost us £300,000 a year to protect 120 settlers ; if those men had oome, they would have settled the land and Te Whiti. (f) His blood runs cold at the misery of the immigrants. Answer : At the misery of the landsharks gobbling up the land and leaving men to starve, (g) The present Government carried true liberal measures. Answer: No! both sides of the House joined in suoh measures as were adopted from Grey's policy; but the land question, the soul of all, is thrown aside, (h) Sir George moved repeal of the Property Tax, without showing resources. Answer: That was not the time to show his hand, for that House would steal his measures again, (i) Large loan companies, why exempt ? Answer : An income tax is the only way of catohing loan companies; and the Major cut the income tax out of the American tax bill which he brought down, so they are still exempt, although they hold loans of millions over us. (k) He supported the Beer Tax. Answer: The rich brow their own beer at ninepence a gallon, and by this tax they take a drink out of every poor man's beer-jog, and pay no tax themselves, besides founding an excise army for their uncles, their cousins, and their aunts. (1) He says representation should not be by numbers, because the towns would get power. Answer : The landsharks already rule the country, and now Mr AUwright would like them to rule the towns. (m) The Government is not responsible fer the 10 per cent. Answer: If the House is stronger than the Ministry, they should resign. That 10 per cent, income tax in the Civil Service is a disgrace to Parliament; had we had local government, it would have been impossible, (n) The honorarium should be less. Answer—Payment of members is a corner-stone of freedom. (o) In Maori matters, approved of Mr Bryce. Answer— He voted to let sharks swallow up the land. His votes are curious—(36, 87, "Hansard"), voted for more millions of debt; (37, 682,) voted away the land fund. He omits all mention of the proposal to put past one million acres to found pauper-shops. Mr AUwright is another instance of the folly of administrators attempting to make laws. He is against preserving the land for the people, and votes to let gamblers buy it. He is ■gainst pouring in people and giving them the land to settle them, which is the only way to smooth the two troubles, namely, the Natives and the deficit. What else could you expect, when a man is taken from his paint-pots and sent to daub the laws ? A good administrator, in looking after gutters, sewers, water supply, harbors, roads, and all that sort of useful work, loses the power of generalisation and analysis, which alouo makes a law-giver. Lyttelton voters

might find a scholar, well read in the history of politics and people, whose soul would scorn to trifle with in the sacred soil of our beloved country. In that event our children would find room for their feet whon we sleep the sleep of the just. Yours, &c, __ J. W. TREADWELL.