The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1890.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3622, 24 September 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1890.

It was magnanimous on the part i jl).' M'Cardle to pffer to retire froi the contest if jilr Hogg were four) to have a larger following jn tf district than himself, but at ti saniC'tjine it was a little weak on h: part, because L° .not stipulal that Mr Hogg should retire ifl: were discovered to be in the minorit 1 It is a question whether Mr Hog would make a compact of this kin< and if, as it is reported, hois belli run by tho Wellington trades uniom ho may not be free to do so, Tli Wellington people may he puttin money on him to carry the Masterto seat and he cannot very well take a independent stand if this bo tho cast We have littlo sympathy with M M'Cardle's complaint that ho is tot poor to fight against an affluer opponent, tor if the people in tli district want a poor man to represei them surely, they can pay his olectio expenses ior him, If the Wellingto people, for example, want Mr Hogg t stand in their interests, it is perfect! legitimate for them topayhisexpenst and for him to accept such payrnem Let Mr M'Cardle's friends stand b him in a similar way and if tho wont, itjis fDolish on his part to fig! a battle forthcm-at his own cos In the pourso pf his fpeoli M M'Cardle told us what fp'.tfijrjg he could do if ho were a Minister c Lends with a million of money t spend, No doubt he eould j bu what is wanted at tho present tirno i a Minister of Lands who can do fin things without the million, Wo ar not suro that Mr M'Cardle in hi speech did not spend several million and omltjied altogether to shoi -'here the money was to fiemp from His prc r ' oßft l ' ot ' duelling b; cutting 'down a &]# wlartaj an absurdity; The business biperieric of every civilised community on tin face of the earth goes to show tha it is an economy to pay head 3 o departments liberally. Mr MaC&rdl. says to the contrary, but then he i not a man of business. Still tin sentimonthe expressed is popular and if in uttering it ho said come thing that was fearfully crude am almost silly ho at least got a heart; burst of applauso from the peopli who like this style of politica oratory. On tho subject of edu cation hie idea of a technical eveninj school was good, but bis snggestioi that the principal teachers .of ou: schools should conduct eveninj classes was bad. These teaohen now wo ]f.ent going to the ful 'extent of their powers; jam[to imposi night work upon- the;n.'w,Oflld hi cruel, it would, in fact, be equivalent to "sweating" schoolmasters. Mi McCardle is fairty.straighUorward ii

) labor question. He takes the 11 '9 of the strikers, and though he "V luted to say anything about boy- • B iting, we may assume that lie .will at t ind by this new terror' of modern a latence. Still we like him. all the Boi Iter for not beating about the bush Yal thia matter. Of course we are Tli pored to Lita in this, believing as Ore '■. do that the present agitation is a »f 5 nselossand unmitigated burse to fort e community, . A good deal H is said an the speech about tnß e Be-valuation Act. That mea- ?** re passed into law long ago, ml id the less said about it the hotter. , I r. McOardlo seemed to tbinkjthat T he wore returned he could do a ™ >od deal towards further reducing . ie price of sections; but unless he issed the Re-valuatiou Act a second t O ., me, which would be slightly super- i no uous, we do not Bee what more he j ra do than he is doing. He is as a cm louiborottho Waste Lands Board Co ghiing for reductions, and many thi jttlers will be grateful to him and V°> ote for him if he becomes a candialc. His patent cure for large totndholders sounds well enough, but i is difficult to apply the kind of fel mention • wlijcli ho suggests. assuming that one individual must ] n lot own more than 500 acres of land, .jjj 1 M that individual, having a large ln amily, registers 500 aores for each th nemb'er of it, and then his sisters, th lis cousins, and his aunts chip in, w: ie would, in: spite of Mr McCardle tr ind all his preventives, get a big ai jlook. A'nian that has money and • rants land, s will get it, anil the man * ivho has no money and wants land {* ivon't get)it, or if he does D] jet a grip of it he cannot hold it. m fhis has been so in the past and will ai jontinue to be so, notwithstanding gl ill that Mr MoOtrdle can say or do. ™ Every patriot would like to be a large • landholder, but if he cannot be, he tc will at least try to prevent everybody, is else from becoming what he himself, b in his heart desires to be, and then °' b& puts his hand on his manly bosom j 1 and fancies he is a benefactor of the „ human race, It is only fair to say n that Mr McCardle made a rattling o good speech, but if he evor sits in the House, ho will, wo fear, prove a much D better man for spending money than o for raising it. As yet, perhaps, his I views are not of very great moment " looking at the fact that he has not ' yet decided whether he will be nominated. WhenheandMrHogg ut have fixed up the disputed leadership a of tho Liberal party in this district, p it will be tinio enough to consider a his platform in greater detail. There « are abler and better men than he in ' this district belonging to the Liberal J party, but on the other hand there are prominent members of it who are much more dangerous and unscrupulous, We can. give Mr j McCardlo credit at least for honesty of purpose, and a desire to forward j the interests of the district, and '. though hp expresses some rather t loose views on many subjects he t might improve if placed in a position ' of responsibility. Ho has at least ' some claim upon us for his services ' in promoting settlement in tho hush , district. i