Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1872.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1291, 6 April 1872, Page 2

Hawke's Bay Times. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri. SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1872.

It is a trite saying that " coming events cast their shadows before," and if we may form a judgment from a series of leading articles that have recently appeared in the columns of the Daily Southern Cross*, we should decide that it is the intention of the Government during the next session of the Assembly to make another attempt to force the policy of Protection upon the Colony. It may perhaps be a«ked, why refer to an Auckland paper when the Government have an organ in the Empire City 1 We reply that the first indications of the presumed intention of the Government would naturally be given at a distance, because in such case it is less likely to descend with a shock upon the public mind than when made in the first instance in the recognised organ of the Government. At any rate, if we remember rightly, that is the course usually adopted. The earliest intimation of any remarkable stroke of policy lias generally been found in some provincial journal—sometimes in the Middle Island, sometimes at Taranaki, and sometimes (as at present) in Auckland. There is also this reason to be given in addition—that there is in Auckland a patty v/ho.se protective proclivities are well known, and that is reason sufficient for the course adopted. We knowthat under the pretence of "revenue purposes," the first instalment of a protective policy was adopted last session, and that an increased expenditure, combined with a diminished revenue, v,ill almost place our Government at its wits 1 end to derive means to extract more money from the pockets of the people. Under these circumstances it becomes the duty of the press to sound the warning note and place the public upon i+s guard against the threatened danger, There is no room to hope that a great increase to the public imposts will not be made, but it behoves everyone to exert his influence to prevent the money wrung from an overtaxed people from failing to reach the treasury and falling into the hands of the protected class. Tt cannot be too strongly borne in mind that just so far as pro tection succeeds revenue fails.