The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1886. THE THREATENED DISSOLUTION.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2208, 1 February 1886, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1886. THE THREATENED DISSOLUTION.

•Wk have been menaced for some time past with a threat of dissolution by the Stout-Vogel coalition, and now we observe that the Ministerial organs are making a preliminary appeal for one. The people are being asked to grant one first through the press, and in due course th» request will be preferred in the second instance to His Excellency the Governor, The Ministry are apparently deficient in the pluck which is requisite to again meet the House. Ita profligate caieer is evidently at an end. If Ministers meet Parliament they know they will suffer the ignomonious defeat which they so richly deserve, that they will be kicked out of " Chicago" so that they want to go home to their " mil"—to an indulgent relative who may be expected to be more blind to their faults than the House of Representatives possibly can be. We trust that when Ministers got home to their" rail," tho Radical dame will meet them with a big stick, and give them that correction which their misdeeds have merited. There seems to be on nil .sides an expectancy of a dissolution, but no valid reason is advanced why so grave a step should be taken. Ministers, no doubt, desire to go to the country while they remain in power. It is questionable whether any Ministry can manipulate tlie'ekctions to any material degree, but if any Ministry can work the oracle, we would back the ijtout-Vogel Combination Troupe to do it, We are disposed to regard their appeal for a dissolution somewhat as an electioneering dodge, and, no doubt, His Excellency will be very careful how he responds to such a requisition. The proper course to be taken would be for the Ministry to take the defeat that awato them in the House, and give their opponents the opportunity of forming a Government. If no party in the House can constitute a working Ministry then a dissolution would be a proper alternative, but because a corrupt and immoral Ministry is played out it does not follow that it should be allowed to escape the condemnation of the elected representatives of the people.