HOME POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2413, 18 October 1892, Page 3

HOME POLITICS.

Mr Labouchere is such a notable person in the English political world _ that his opinions on the Gladstone Ministry are worth quotation. In Truth he writeS ( as follows :—A good deal of party writing has spoilt paper upon the merits and demerits of the Administration. The fact is it is neither entirely composed of idiotic fiends, as urged by the Unionist press, nor by angels, as set forth in the Government orgaus. Mr Gladstone is Premier. I am delighted to think that he has attained this position, not only on account of his past services, but because the Unionists had been so veiy certain that the country would never confide its destinies to him. He has said that he lives alone for Ireland, and that British reforms must occupy a subordinate position to Home Rule. No one is a more ardent Home Ruler than I, but I hold that securing the latter is the only certain way to obtain the former. Besides the Lord Chancellors: there are fivp peers in the Cabinet. We are \r\ fqr a desperate battle between tbo anistocraoy, as represented by tho House of Lords, and the democracy, as represented by the House of Commons. In tb.G Radical party) peers, therefore, should have, to say the least, a secondary position. Of the members of the Cabinet in the House of Commons I have the most confidence in Sir William Harcourt. Mr Morley is thoroughly honest, and he is sound on all issues except the labour question; but he is more tho man to write an essay on storms in the cabin and bravely go down with the ship than to rule the storm on the quarter-deck. But why was Mr Asquith preferred to Mr Fowler as Home Socretary ! The subordinate appointments have been, as was too much the habit of former days, mainly filled up with suckling young patricians.