TOO MUCH LEGISLATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81869, 19 October 1906, Page 2

TOO MUCH LEGISLATION.

At \\e;hn K ton the other day Mr row Ids, Minister for Kducatio'n. acknowledged that there had been too much Jigi»laiiun in the pan—a fact that seem* to haye struck everybody except the law-makers themselves ills speech was quite refreshing.' He said : "It was a most pernicious principle to judge a Parliament bv the size of the statute-book. Ho belicv llu i l l >"' ttwi -* r laws Parliament passed the better for the people ol JNew Zealand. There had been far J too much legislation in tho past Tlu |l.'jriste!ivc machine had worked fai too freeiy. The trouble was that wlnr. an exceptii.jial ca-.c or ail is o 'atcd clilticuhy »a> „iei itl, in .-oin* part oi the country, piesnire wa> brought to bear; and a law was pas '<l4- He believed a great deal o n«»nn was don<.* in tlij.s way. X])' danger was not in too much'talk, bu 111 too much law. While some of th matters Parliament diseased couh Mter be dealt with by borough coun 111. still there was not too nmch tall :ti 1 arbamcnt as far as great prii, cip.p wne concerned. f[e enjoine, he- hearers to love the truth and ehet Hi the principles of l,b ( . nv . | k alratd Hie principles of l,| K . rtv jis much 111 danger tn-dav as ih'cv Irn been ,n a«e s gene. jv,p|e 'cottl, Do! J'Ve togi'tll'T in s..cete withou :i "' r! '" n liimlation of individual lib eny; but every Mep of encroachmen I'll that libcny should l,e caref u ll watched Jhe tyranny of t|,e mi is "as likely to be grinding u KII Ihe tyianny of an ;tri^i or-r;ic\-. { :| «;My was til.- great ideal—the greate* ticedom for the individual so long a 10 did not tread o„ t | ;e rights. an liberties of his fellows,''