The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1885.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4991, 10 January 1885, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Resurrexi. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1885.

Eveb since the last advent of Sir Julius Vogel to Parliamentary life, and more particularly since he took bis seat on the Treasury benches as a member of the present Government, he has been subjected to about as much abuse as any public man ever has been, and for what object, it is not very difficult to venture a conjecture, when it is taken into consideration where the abuse has chiefly come from. The New Zealand Times, published in Wellington, has been lavish in its denuncia* tions of the Colonial Treasurer and all his acts. This is not at all astonishing when the motive which more than probably acts as an incentive in the case is considered. The New Zealand Times is one of those organs whose life's blood is Government support, whose existence has been for a long time —more particularly since it has belonged to its present proprietary—-sustained by the favors it has by various means, principally of a sycophantic character, caused to be shown to it. Its life as a newspaper, were the strict lines of journalism laid down and followed in giving a judgment on it, would and should be a very short one indeed. The subsidised organ of the Continuous Ministry ; the journalistic creature of the Ajtkinsonian party ; the name without a aubstancein the matter o£a morning daily in/New Zealand's capital, would thunder forth—if it could —its dreadful fire, but unfortunately for its influence, there is very much more of the firework business aboutTT than that of the destructive artillery it would fain make use of. While not for one moment attempting to act as a champion of Sir Julius Vogel in all his acts, we most decidedly advocate fair play, and would do our u'most to smother the diatribes of those disappointed organs—no matter ho*v feeble their shafts —rwho have lost any little status they ever hid, and the more solid consolations attached to having friends in office, by the possession cf power by Sir Julius Togel. Many such journals, professing a healthy desire for public benefit, simply open the vials of their wrath on any subject interfering with their sweet will and interests, aud delude thoughtless readers into the belief that all their solicitousness arises from purely disinterested motives. One of the curses of journalism is this system of having a " Government organ," a paper published in the interests of a party, a concern which, as a rule, degenerates into a second class publication from a literary sense, owing to. the vitality it secures from careful Government nursing. The Stout Administration has, we think, wisely refrained from this press-patronage business, and it is only natural from a profit point of view that the publication we refer to should be eager to see again in office a party from which and from whose friends it has in the past derived considerable benefits. In the interests of the purity of the order to which we belong, wo trust that this " howling down" system adopted by UWny interested opponents not only of the party ie power, but of the Treasunr personally, will m&sb TTJtlj the disastrous fate they so well merit.