THE FEILDING CHRONICEL AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1879. THE COMING STRUGGLE.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 65, 13 August 1879, Page 2

THE FEILDING CHRONICEL AND ADVERTISER. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1879. THE COMING STRUGGLE.

Before, these linjes shall , ha^ve coma, before oar readers, tha dissolution granted ,, by His Excellency, to Sir Geobge Gee"* will A have become an, accomplished fact v and m a, few days, we shall be erigag&d m/ on,e of ; tbet keenest struggles for political ascendancy which the Colony has ever witnessed. The policy of the Government which was m pp^er opening of^ (the lato Session having beem^ccepte4; by the t£pu>e generally, the' cipnteit at the approaching gfcneral etepiKon trill jbe narrowed into oiee issue^-aje. we toi. ; Jiave true Liberalism or merely Liberal-, 'ism such as the Colony has suffered from for the last t^p years, w^ith Sir' : Geobgke Ghet- asits ; exponent, op., ia. other words— autocrat^ P The. results, of the latter have been sp, disastrous^ and are' so patent,; and; present to. the' minds of the electors that there can bei. be no question which aide will prova i: victorious; '■ In, ;m»ny .-instances, -no,, doubt, opposing pan dsaiea/ Trill rear their platforms on the basis of the pro.- - gramme enunciated-- in the- Governbij'g. speech, with such modifications ahi additions as each may deem best caleu-. : lated to prove attractive to ;thd ency Tfhbse sweet ypices hV. essays to, k w6p.'; .-. . ; ,'' :;; ; ;'. .'.■■;". "'; ','. '..;..' „.,.-,■ '- -. ; . l ' /: Beyoni the progrj\miiE\e to which we have alluded, t'liere ape, however, pne v | or two, points of yitai importance: to thes , i- North Island upon which the eleptor^, "will do well to see that the candidates^ ; whom they infenji;' io. support aro : thoroughly 1 - sound, before .r*e?ordingv 'their votes. In the. present article we v shall ' confine ; b»ur renjar^S; to 7 one ©£> them— the fe-impositipri pi thp. dytj} 6n[ foreign timber. We .have pointed out in /for'n\;r Article's how disastrously the .remission pf this duty — the 'folly of "the Grey Administration, b 6? ~ side which', for 'absurdity, -the Beec Duty and the^ Free. Breakfast JCable sink into; in^igriificance-^hlas affected the^Nortliern^ Island. T?e hhavea a ye showi\ that it hias extinguished our coasting tiiade, hasjrob.bgd th^a (Jovernmenl of au '•;; considerable slice of iieyenue, not only m respect of import duties, but also by.^;; depriving the railways of a material^ item m their receipt^ hajs caused to be. destroyed that whicn otherwise would, have proved a source pf wealth to the industrioTis settler, . anj^r. ha^ . IcurtailodVand restricted the e3tpaij.sion ofj one of- , the principal industries of thjts...poptioii of the' Colony,, thereby producing a! stagnation m business that has made,' abself felt from th.e i highesit J to 5 th.c. iowest.' 'In the Manawatu ajptte. the. monetary loss to the comniunity-isieT.-. presented at some £50,$QQ per- anntun'^".. what itmust have been m Ancklan.d we can only leave'^our readers tot jMge.^ t ySo long as the duties remain tinimp^sei'i: ; weshall look m vain for any -return to. former prps^erityj, seeing- howseriously.their remission has affected all classea." :of the community— the merchant, the I shoprkeeper, the mechanic, ,and tho ; laborer. . . „< It behoves, then, the electprsrr-in.theV North Island, at any-.ra^s-— ;tO;/eViiat .■ the, candidate for whom they are] aboui ito vote is sou^d on the question, jah<i to withhold their -support frpm^ll who. will not unconditionally ; and iinre-. ■ servedly pledge themselves ,nof^.onljfv to vbt^for, but also to exert them^ selves to achieve, so de^ifable a Jcpn-^ summation as the re-impositipn of the timber duties. ' < ■.■•'-"•: ■-■-"■.■ "