The Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1880.

Temuka Leader, Issue 242, 13 March 1880, Page 2

The Temuka Leader. SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1880.

The numerous commissions that are being appointed by the Government is a rather eqaovictl form of retrenchment. It will doubtless stave off the blame that would otherwise fall upo the Government itself, and if the gentlemen' who aie apuohxtod to the office wore free from

la look Is> over iho list of mmies of ihe various c-.m'nissionors’We £h 1 that some of them are Ue- ply hit .rested n the progr -as of certain works and ii* keeping back others, whi e no provision ae=ons to have been made for ro niacin O' those iut r sted commissi- Tiers by others, whoaie not so,iumiudi tely inter A- I, in ti t to secure impartiality. In many itr-dan-.-es, also, ivf) been chosen who are totally nnfi! by their previous life or o<-cn-palions to jn ’gc rightly of the m..tiers they \\ ill have to heal with. Another rc* markable feature is the f: ct that the graa 1 by the Go vermnent are Government supporters. Comparing (he speeches of some of the members of 0 1 he" present Government üben hi opposition, to the course of action adopted by them since they got into offi e, the inconsistent y is so great as to cause any right-minded person to turn away in disgust. Unnecessary, wasteful expen i lure was then their war-cry; now they shamelessly launch in the North Ldand of fifties of thousands of pounds for'iunproductive works, and for this their 'friends gapplaudj them to the skies. Government are playing their game with much cunning and craft, and, although the Auckland affair has not yet come to a head, it is fast converging to it. The patience of the Auckland men has been great. No doubt the renewed promise not to forget, iherd.|keeps them quiet, but it will fake all the ingenuity that even Mr Hull, gifted with to reward his Auckland friends without disclosing hi* hand to olh.r parts of the colony. The cry is that the revenue is falling off, but the other fact is that the Government are'Junwarrantably expending thousands in the North Island seem 3 to be lost sight of by (he Libera! party. It is"no doubt true that the Liberal in* tcrest got’a shock by the sham dul desertion of tlio'Anckknd members, who lulled them to sleep while they were negotiating with the enemy for a surrender on the garrison;but we do not think they should show . such apathy as they arc doing at the present moment. The Otago Lhiily Times, formerly a Liberal journal, wheeled light about one morning as if it had received a shock from a galvanic battery. But this was nothing to cause surprise, seeing that the conduct of the journal was cut out for it by the Directors of tho company, who are its masters. The Morning Herald, on tne other hand, has been throughout a consistent advocate of Conservatism, and little thanks did it give to its turn-coat contemporary for bo suddenly changing its creed. The Echo, a new weekly paper, wiil doubtless bo a great support to tho Liberal cause in Dunedin, and it would be well for other Liberal journals to take lesions from it fur their future guidance to some extent, rather than sit and mope over the misdeeds of the faithless. That tho present Government wiil not bo able to hold together for another session, urless.it|Jforms a Coalition Ministry, must he evident to all who study passingi'ovenls. It is therefore the more necessary that Liberals should pull together more steadily in future, if they mean to make themselves masters of the situa. tion. Tho loud crowing by tho Conservative journals of this colony :>ver the fall of the Berry Ministry shows clearly that they are ready to burko all Liberal measures as soon as they have the chance. It is in the power of a united Liberal party to control the Government now in power any way they choose. If they will only be united, they can do what they like next Parliament.

Some ono has been kind enough to send uh a paragraph clipped from the Tablet,the Roman Catholic organ, in Dunedin, fer the purpose, we presume, of letting us know what our contemporary thinks ot out article on Pastor Chiniqny. Wo had the pleasure, however, of rending the paragraph referred to long before this copy was sent to us. Our surprise was, that the criticism was so mild, coming,as it did, from a journal makes use of abuse for argument. Com pared with the torrent of abuse that has from time to time been poured out agains some of the Dunedin papers— the Ohris_ tian Record, and other periodicals —th e share that has fallen to the Temuka Lead ek ia small indeed; but the latter journal attempted to point cut a few of the numerous errors which serve as a bulwark to the priest - ridden Roman Catholic Church, and thas was enough. We hap. pened, moreover, to let a little more of the trutli out, by stating that her bishops were sham bishops, using the title unwar_ rantably, and that they had no legal right to call themselves bishops ; that the Jesuit Priests are the most intriguing and deceitful mischief xmkers on the face oj the earth. It is no use saying history proves it; it believes no history but those garbled publications which emanate from members of the Church of Rome. The arrogance of the journal referred to is useless taking notice of. It is like a certain character ponrtiayed in the Scriptures as follows : She has a w rs face, and refuses to be ashamed. The abuses heaped upon all Protestants from week to week, and the insulting language made use of against the Government and institutions of tbocou try, is sufficient to provoke a riot by any people, if they had the priests and ministers of'their olmrch to goad them

Churches hav* conic sh«>rb of their duty at we admit ; but tho Church of Rom o (in the Talrot’s ' pinion) is perfection it :’elf. .It ia surpr’sing how men, living iu tins i.n!ig!i:ci:e-i ag->, can tolerate smh g. rb go -as thin defender of tin ir. cree l sends forth amongst them we- kly. Protestants r.ml Cuhoiies desire to live peacably together, but it is next to impossible to do so while, this firebrand, with its godless education shrug) continues to vomit forth mire and dirt.