The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1890.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3652, 3 November 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1890.

Mr Buchanan argues that the puperjor "sobriety of colonial born men over napyeg pf the qltf cquntry is a testimony to the moral result of our education system. This is a fallacy, for long before our State system of education was inaugurated cplpnial youths were essentially sober. Indeed, it js pfissiplp for an ignorant and vicious people tone a sober people, and education produces very little result in individuals prone to this particular form of intemperance, fir Buchanan appears to have overlooked,'tod, the lion that the large'percentage of drunkenness amongst English born people in this Colony is due to the fact that people at home, when they havo a dillicult.case of intemperance to deal with are fond of sending it out to the polonies. is one of the places where such hard cases are wont to be marooned,

The Catholic Times has published an extraordinary revelation of a plot . conjocted between Sir Harry Atkinson and Sir Itohert Stout for the futuro good government of New Zealand, After the elections Sir Robert is supposed to take the Premiership - with Sir Harry as| Colonial Treasurer and Mr Jellicoe ai Minister of Justice and lighting Lieutenant.' , Sir Harry's present colleagues aro to be thrown overboard, and Sir Robert on his part is to deposo Mr Ballance. Whether this report is well founded we know not, but advantage'slionld be taken of the present election season to .elicit the tnifli or falsehood of the allegations, Two lawyers like Stout and Jellicoe sittipg as a pair of bully boys pn tlie Ministerial Benches with Sir Harry's, hobnailed boots' as a reserve would be top rnuph for the liberties of any House. It is said too that Sir Julius" Vogel'is in the plot and that his picking is to. be the A gent-GencraleJi ip.

Now that the strike has collapsed there is one thing that the labour party should bear in mind, viz., that those public men and those journals which from the first told them what the issue would be, honestly and truthfully, p'O their (fiends, arpbat [hose publip men uA jopals"sioj) encouraged them to' proceed ;'s a hopeless contest were their enemies I And yet they haveloved their euemies who lied to them, and hated their friend? who told theni the truth I When" the it was a question amongst thoughtful me,}) whether it would lasf sjjc wjokg or eight weeks, but therewas nevbra doubt as tp 'its'termination'withinsome such period. We trust now the ; labour party will be wise enough to reepgnise as ilt| i'jiencjs thpso, andi those only, who haye bepn trjithjul in tlieif dealings witli |t." '

'he best speech, perhaps, of the present election campaign, is iheone "»t was not delivered. It lias subsequently been published in . Ibo Wellington Evening. Press by its author, ;Mr Duthie, and ia worth a yozen of the ranting orations of florid liberal candidates who appeal to the passions and prejudices of their audiences, and do not pay them the compliment of regarding them as reasonable beings, Mr Duthie's speech is: just what an election address should be, viz, a reliable compilation "Sf impartial observations i on the exact condition of tho Colony and its finances. Mr Duthie's policy is to restore the credit and repute of the Colony abroad, and to hasten up the opening and settlement of Crown and Native lands at home.' To a policy of this kind all sensible men will Bay amen, and it is a great satisfaction to us to hear that Mr Duthie's return to. the House is considered curtain by well informed people. ''..''• . .