GUIDE, PHILOSOPHER, AND FRIEND.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1992, 16 May 1885, Page 2

GUIDE, PHILOSOPHER, AND FRIEND.

In reviewing the s'peecji recently made by 'Sir' Gedrge Grey at 1 Auckland,' 1 tile jfyeij|ng Jfrejjg savs:—Those''who Wish to fqr the 1 IVlinis.try may say .what tjfe'y jjke atqut l!j ir. 'Geqrg£ (frey's'spee'cli.'' They njay say" there 'is nqtljingm it," that jt is pray aWifkjfc p\ ll'is p]4 gtjjiflp' tlfat' jt'' If'as no bearing on practical politics;' and'all the rest of it, But they know well enouglj, all the while, that it hit the Ministry tremendously hard, and damaged them individually more than anything that any of their declared opponents could have said pi'<|qno, As for Sir Julius Vogel, Sir •'fie'orge 'Grey peyer, was anyjjhjng but a bitter opponent of'his/and'he rieyq'r will lie, heroic qui {jqldiqr, effljqrer, laiy-gfyer, rujer, I 'aha denrngratjc autqorat, against Ihq money-changer,' f|)e §ul)t)eji|e§ of stock-jobbing finance, which agt jikg a charm on some men's minds, havg no other effect on him than to raise his bile in an inordinate degree, It is almost impossible to imagino'two" men between whom there would be less in common than there is between Sir George Grey and Si? Julius Vogel. It is an imperial eagle ip a. Ppng gw), All that Sir George'coilW'gaj'-abpuf tlje Cpjpnial Treasurer, therefore, (Joes, 'jjqfc % inaj|ei; much, because he never' disguised his. opinion of him, and he has not altered it, But his attack on Mr Stout and Mr Balance was terribly cutting. They not only stung sharply, but t-hey cut deep. Thetriithis'MrStout destroyed himself as a Liberal leader, and as 'a ,p 'ooris|gMfc politician, by his support of the "Policy Bills".last session. We are sincerely, sqfry that it is so, 'We (Jo not agree with Mr' Sjto-qt 'in ' hi? extteme 'yipws on the Slid qiieatfoii j " / bup we'have ''ii genuine admiration for his public char' acter, andw'e recognise iri liiin "h, 'great cqlqnisfc, capable of 'incalculable useful" hess io- lu's counto, To us, then, and ! to thousands who' think )ysh jjs,' jt j's' a matter 'of'more than passing Regret 'thai he should have allowed himself to "be led in-io, ij guilder which will mar his power of ifs'efuihefjs for years, if it does'not actually blast jus Bui; regret it as w'e may,''thero isn't) ii'je iif fefn'smg the fact. There is no apswer to the cWq wljigl). Sir George" (rrey brought agauis.fc % Stqut,' pf' haying been an (jetiye party tq give a n')(Jlk| and a half aoroe of publjo Jajid, wjtlial| the timber and coal and gold upon it qr beneath it, to a ring of absentoe tipcoiijrltors. In the face of that damning record, as Sir George Grey quito justly pointed out, it is sheer fatuity for Mr Stout still to claim pubjic confidence as an enemy of land ninn'op'ol/'afid' a' phamnion of the rights of the people to'asliai'^df'the'Tmb- ; lie estate, The East and West Coast Railway Bill is destined to be the curse qf Mr Stout's political oxistenco; like the dead albatross tifed'rdund the neck of the Ancient Mariner. And : whaf; is said of ; Mr Stout may be said with equal force of \ 'Mr Ballanco. It ='is "positively ludicrous fqr tlje Minister of' Lanijs to go about inviting wqrkjng njei) to' take up "potato patches qn. perpetual Jem' an'ij galling that "tlfe settlemeift',qf the pcqplepn the land"; when, all the while',' the agents of a cqmmjtfee qf' Ohristchurch speculators are en4eayqrjng, with the assistance of the Agen^Gengrai,, ajid the full countenance of the Government, to sell the freehold of half the available Crown land in Canterbury, Westland, and Nelson to a syndicate in London,