The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3721, 28 January 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1891.

Mr Coleman Phillips has been handed over to the tender mercies of the new Minister for Justice, and the Times predicts that there will not be much tenderness in that quarter. We fancy, however, that the alleged culprit is pretty safe, for did he not contend that the peculiar action taken by himself was instigated by a desire to benefit "the working man." Surely "the working man" is a talisman with the new Ministry and Mr Coleman Phillips, who is not without friends amongst them, is more likely to be exalted than degraded. After all, though Mr Coleman Phillips deserved to be laughed at for his little escapade, no one would like to see him come into any serious trouble over it, and to make him a martyr would be Bimply capping tbfi .absurdity of the affair by political tomfoolery. We are quite willing to believe that the one man south of the line is Mr W. L. Bee*. He it is who is calling upon the House of Representatives to ask the United States, Great Britain, and the Colonies to bold a pan-angli-can Conference on labor and capital. It is understood thaf the Emperor of Germany has muflfed tfn's question, and that Mr Rees, with the Marquis of Salisbury as his right band supporter, and Mr Gladstone as his left hand supporter, has undertaken to solve the greatest problem of the age. We presume the giant intellect of Mr flees has divined a specific which will throw into the shade all previous political discoveries. He would certainly be the ons man south of the line were he not evidently .determined upon also making himself the one man north of it- The southern hemisphere won't hpl<J him |

The Ministerial party are said by one of themselves to be determined to kick, a goal. They are not content with kicking, but aro bent on kicking high, and we aro pleased that this should be so. The colony wonts rousing up a little, and settlers who haye been selfishly intent on their own affairs and who have neglected to do their duty to the country in which thev reside and by which they live, require to be reminded that the i neTT Parliament is not a huge joke. Let the new men by all means kick a goal if they are able, and let them tell us fairly and squarely what the goal is which they intend to kick. Have they the courage to make land nationalisation their goal ? Tall talk is altogether in their line, but if they really mean business and are not firing blank cartridges to alarm timid conservatives, we shall have more respect for than we at present entertain.

Some time ago a man who was yoat to spend much of his time in tjbe House of Representatives watch-

ing the chosen of the people, and noticing their characteristics, said of the member ol Waipawa that he was a good sort of fellow, but the most unpreseut >ble man in the Assembly. To-day he is selected by his party to be Chairman of Committees, iind i»ay therefore be deemed to be the most presentable man in the House. How is it that the Waipawa ugly duckling has become such a swan 1 Wo do not b2iieve that the man himself has altered ; he is as swan-like now as be was in the old days, the transformation iB in the House itself. Some day perhaps, when the new democracy has its sway, and lamplighters become aiistocrats, we shall see a Bill Sykes in the chair.