CLAPTRAP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 524, 24 July 1880, Page 2

CLAPTRAP.

r ■; * ' " [To the Editor of the WjuweapiDailtJ The the last few days by' our idgus*'Representatives m Parliament assembled, if they were not so expensive to the country, might be provocative of amusement.' Retrenchment, economy, useful measures, what are these in comparison toih'e'importince of introducing grotesque larrikmim into the debates in the "House? If Sir George Grey wishes to.immolate.himself on the altar of his injured'feelings, no one will wish to hinder him, provided'it is done at his own cost, and not at that of the .country,,and at. a seasonable time and place. Think of the bad example you are setting-posterity? 0 thou great proConsul, pause and think.that yoiiwll be handed down by lomeifutureiKistorian, as the obdurate imbecile, who stood all but speechless for the space of forty minutespb>cajsiphe 's'Liaston Bumpkm wouldjnpilook upon yod, and mentally iwallow' the whole of your verbose twaddle. The adage that one' fool-makes many, is being exemplified l 'perfeotly, during the present itaiioh of Parliament. £36,000 for Lunatic Asylums? Thii is a large amount no doubt, buf when we compare it with the cost to the country; of the idiocy of some Honorable Members it sinks into insignificance. ' :' ■ How much we hear of reducing' Civil Servants salaries 10 or 20 pier cent. Let member* recollect that economy, like charity, should - begin at home. If speeches were ourfcailed some 90 per eent ,it would materially lessen a useless expenditure. A reduction in this direction would not be a hardship, at anyrateit wouldnofc:be like the reductions-tend in some instances to take bread arid"'butter out of individuals'nioutns;"'It would simply prevent the columns of. Hansard, and the Colonial papers' beinjj surfeited with yard upon yard; of impoteiirblaptrap. ■■ '• "-':"%: lam,'etc;,',;C