SIR GEORGE GREY'S STUMPING TOUR.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2787, 19 January 1878, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY'S STUMPING TOUR.

There is a great deal of glowing eloquence and fluency of phrase in Sir George Grey's stamping speeches through the colony, bat it is difficult to collect from them anything like a coherent state* ment of Ministerial policy. lie tells the electors that " It is oar common and onr bound en duty to aim at this, that every man and erery youth in this country should bo instructed in political know* ledge. I feel that, next to your religions duty, the next duty which follows that and forms part really of your religious duty, is to consider your duty to your fellow men and that which you ought to do for the public welfare and for the com* mon good.*' Here in Victoria we know pretty well what this fusion of religion and politics usually comes to—that the warfare of politics is merely embittered by sectarian animosities, and that the profit goes to the politician who can pull the wires of sectarianism with the greatest skill. But, although Sir George Grej makes it a part of their religious duty for citizens to become politicians and take interest in the miserable squabbles and trickeries of which our politics are mainly made up, he is not able to show them what they are to aim at when this part of their education is completed. Their political duty' appears to be comprised in keeping Sir George Grey in power and sticking to him through thick and . thin., He, indeed, ex* Slained to the residents of Auckland is plans for bringing the Gorcrnor under the heel of the Government. This desirable end is, in accordance with the ideas of our own Premier, to be reached by revolution. If the Crown, meaning the Governor, goes on allying itself with the squatters . and . the . Upper House, " then the people would rise and create a form of Government chosen by them* selves." Evidently the plans of Sir George . Grey and those of 3lr Berry are based on parallel lines, although neither of these revolutionists Ventures to tell the colonists whether separation from the mother country is contemplated as a consequence of their revolutionary proceedings: In another respect there is a very great analogy between the speeches of these two great statesmen. Each of them succeeds in conveying the impression that, in the midst of the cloud of oratorical phrases in which he lives and moves and has his being, he has absolutely no view as to which direction he is to take, or even where he is to put his next step.-* Australasian.