No Greater Difficulty

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 207, 18 June 1887, Page 5

No Greater Difficulty

far the people in the country afc the coming election than tho fact that for the last t*n years their leaders have so misgoverned tho countiy that they have landed it in its present position - the wretched condition in which they themselves describe it to be. The leader of the Opposition told us that Ministers arc- vainly trusting that they will come back with a majority. For my part) I do not think that the country will care two straws for either Government or Opposition. The country tired of both parties, each of whom has done its share in bringing the country to the present depi 01 able state, and we shall all of us find that there is more dynamite under our seats than we contemplate. I believe that the country will rihe to the occasion, that the patriotism of the people will bo aroused, that they will no longer allow this grand country to be played with as the shuttlecock in a game of battlcdoie between two rival parties ; it will insi&fc upon the position being faced earnestly and honestly, and upon the Legislature devising some means of extricating the country from tho condition in which it has, by a long course of gross and reck* less misgovcrnment, been placed.