Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 1891. Deeds, not Words.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 7 November 1891, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 1891. Deeds, not Words.

The stainless Government that now rules the Colony seem to believe that they need not that virtue, charity, which covereth a multitude of sins, judging by the heartless manner in which they have acted towards the Wellington Benevolent Institution. The Chairman, at a meeting held early this week, informed his Board, that owing to the Government subsides not having been paid, they were without funds J He hud interviewed the Minister in charge of the Charitable Aid Department, and had understood that he would guarantee to the Banker of tha Board the payment of the amount of subsidy due next month. The Chairman was soon undeceived, the 'Minister undertaking no guarantee j&f any fixed sum, but that he would pay, moneys accruing to the Board, to the account at the Bank. It < will be at once seen that this gave the Banker no security either as to the amount to be paid, or the time it would be paid in, and therefore the Banker refused to make any advance.

It was pointed out that former Governments had made advances in cjises of urgency, but, as the Chairman l^narked." "this Government; being ii Liberal Government, could not afford to do anything of the sc-rfc, even to keep poor people alive. His private opinion of their pretensions to liberalism was that they were a sham, a srmre; and a. delusion 1 ."

The workiiig man's friend, is ready to make a big blow about settling him upon the land, shortening the hours of labour, and driving the obnoxious man of wealth away from these shores, by penal taxation ; all of which is as yet talk, and nothing move ; still, when the time conies for action to save the poor and needy, the sick and deserted, when they cry aloud for foodi these miserable ahatits are capable of misleading the head of an institution established to relieve such distress, and when asked by him, for bread, offer him a stone.

True " Liberalism " was manifested by a member, who has the gnod fortune to be blest with a shave of this world's goods, and without parade or cant, he quietly inquired the amount needed — a sum of £1000

when, in the words of the report "Mv G. M. Kebbell undertook to interview the manager of the bank, and on his return he announced that he had signed the necessary guarantee, and that the Board's cheque would be paid." The poor we have with us always, and it would seem advisable for them to endeavour to retain also the rich, as the Government seem but a broken reed to rely on, when assistance is most needed.