The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1881.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 952, 17 December 1881, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1881.

The demagogue of the Empire City is Mr Wmuii HUTcmsoK, ex-jouvtia 1 - ist. His antipathy to the journals now published in Wellington is one of his characteristics. In a recent speech he has said that among them there is an utter want of any consistent light or leading. Mr Hutchison is always modest and did not add that this light went out and this leading departed when he abandoned editorial duties for tho more profitable trade of professional politician. As a journalist Mr Hutchison was not very successful,and his soreness and bitterness against his former contemporaries who have been more fortunate is very natural, Mr Hutchison, when ho first began to woo electors in town and country, was not very successful. A first-class passenger who travels thirdclass for the first time hardly feels quite at home, However agreeable he may try to make himself, he is regarded with some suspicion by his fellowtravellers. However, Mr Hutchison persevered and kept on travelling thirdclass till he convinced his companions that he really was more comfortable with them than in more exalted company. He is a clever man, and after many efforts he fetched the working men and w.as by them invested with place and power. Mr Hutchison rose in the world—working men being Ihr step-ladder. His lot is not altogether an enviable one. He has," vofens vokns, to pipe the tunes which please his contingent/ Wo cannot fancy t)jat when at the declaration of the poll he held up to popular scorn the Nathan's, the Krull's, the Jacob Joseph's, the Fitzgerald's and the Dransfield's, of Wellington, he performed a pleasant task. Jn his secret heart he must value the respect of the leading citizens' of Wellington, but the abuse of them is the price he has'to pay for his seat, it, is the .demagogue dirt which has to lie swallowed. Poor demagogues have much to put up with, and they pay dearly for the slices of cake which they purchase. It must 'by hard for an able man like Jfr

Hutohisox to haye : to talk Uieutter nonsense which 'he is compolled to utter., In his last reported speeclij' .for example, he; boasts in one breath that ho is returned ,by one class in.the community, and in another that he- : represents the common welfare of all: classes. We do not, for a'moment, suppose that Mr Hutchison believes that buttering one class and reviling another is representing the common welfare of all classes, fie has, however, to say these sort of things. His constituents would not give their votes to a man with his training and education—would not give him that social and political distinction which lies in the magic letters '• M.H.R."—unless he fouled the ncsfc from which ho came forth to woo them. The gravest objection to demagogues is that, to gain their ends, thoy persistently set up a class cry; thoy rouse one of the com-

monest but one of the most deplorable passions in humanity—the envy with

which an unsuccessful man looks upon a successful 'one. We cannot regard any man who docs this as good or true. It is not a brotherhood of all classes in the community which demagogues aim at Thoy endeavour to draft the working-men away from other sections of the people, and to place a gulf between master and and servant, between the rich and poor man, between the educated and utiedueated. If, instead of doing this; they strove to make servants become masters by the exercise of industry and frugality, if they tried to make poor men rich, if they sought to teach the uneducated, they would cease to be demagogues, and would deserve the confidence and approbation of all classes in the comnuinity-