THE PARISH PUMP.
Mr Coleman Phillips, of Carterton, has no respect for the "parish pump" variety of politician. He is honest, and likes honesty in public life. Unhappily, there are too few men of his calibre, and his outspokenness, in this Dominion. In a letter to the Press he .says:—"ln my opinion the parish pump politician is the curse of Parliament, being the contemptible plaything of the Ministry of the day. We have had 19 years of such politicians, and time it is to escape from their harmful clutches. England has none of them, as no public money is spent "there to Tmj grovelled for. Canada had them up to 1885, when Sir John McDonald moved an absolute cessation of any public works policy, as the whole thing was a degradation to the halls of Parliament. Up to 1885 the same awful degradation and log-rolling and truckling for local votes disgraced Canada as now disgraces New Zealand. But since then the railways have been made by private enterprise, and of course they are a great deal better and far more cheaply run than our New Zealand lines, which are about the worst in the world."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 24 December 1910, Page 4
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195THE PARISH PUMP. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10153, 24 December 1910, Page 4
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