ALFREDTON.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2644, 11 July 1887, Page 2

ALFREDTON.

(From an occasional Correspondent.)

I have read Mr Hawkins' speocb and address very carefully and tailed to find a single sentence which allows in tho smallest degree, how the Colby's honor is to be redeemed, the formifla for candidates is not good enough—ability, knowledge,.etc., are right enough in a way, but the question lor us to ask., is " What have you done with your gift of ability?" "Have you been able to manage your own affuirsthat we are justified in sending you to Parliament to ma.ke laws which will tend to make the indir vidual and the colony more prosperoiW. It is not sufficient to say 1 buried n)y. talent and love for the working man in ; the cold cold ground, but a resurrection took place on the eve of an election forthe Wairarapa North. It seems tft mo that to send Mr Hawkius to Parliament, would only be to add one more: to the number of theoretical politicians who have done so much to bring ;fche colony to a state of almost bankruptcy. What is wanted in Now Zealand's Parliament at the present time is not men who will deafen the House with the exercises of their lungs, but men who willraise thocolony out of its presont unfortunate state by the exercise ot their brains. Mr Hawkins' ''.History of England".l call Mr Hawkins'' perversion of English History, If there is one thing clearer than another in British History it is' this," That it is Britain's foreign policy and imperialism and not her free trade, principles that have made her the " Work-shop" of tho whole world." I will only give one other of Mr Hawkins' rainy perversions, He speaks of the war party in England as against' Mr Gladstone. -The reply to. that is to be found in the figures annexed/* Query, what were the two secret treaties signed

by iDisraeli with Rußaial MrHawkjnß is very fond of pointing stone as a great statesman and moael Christian; he would do well to leave the poor-old man alone ): He isa.fit subject for sympathy. We all—Mr Hawkins excepted—know Mr Glad--8 toiie'a pol i ticn I .hi s tory r .He cotam enced j'his pUblidlife success* |fui !: roanifiuktor', ; of. figures..with the |'.Liberals,' -ft .. deipolisher-..0f useful of.t&Kadicals,, jjOT-ilet Wns.a meiiioer ftr' : supporter responable for, the-feiWpwitig.l jlßurmesa War, Russell •1854-56, liuasian Aberdeen Government, £loo,' China War,-Pal merstoh £6,640,800; 1856-57, Persian ExpSW; tion,'PftlmerstonGpvernment,£9oo,ooo,. 1857-58, Indian Mutiny, Paluierston Government, £10,000,000.; 1860-65, tWd.New Zealand Wars, ■ ; ,Falm'ersti*tfj Government, £964,800; 1873-jig Ashantee War, Gladstone Goverurpe™ £1,711,000. . • Total, ,£121,416,500. Any schoolboy knows, who to credit with the Egyptian war and unnecessary bombardment of Alexandria, the Mujuba Hill disgrace,, etc.", etc..