The Wairarapa Daily THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1891.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3798, 30 April 1891, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1891.

Wb Lave read the Evening Post for the last five and twenty years and always regarded it as an exponent of liberal opinion, but our contemporary now finds itself absolutely stranded

high and dry as a liberal organ, while a new liberalism, which knows it not, sails along with all its canvas spread. Our contemporary sadly asks " what is a liberal," and wants to know if the faddists, the agitators,

and the revolutionists who constitute King Mob are liberals. They are indeed the new liberals, and is not their leader, their guide, philosopher and friend, the Premier of the Colony,

auu uavt; iucy uuu seuureu a majority in the present parliament ? The old time liberals who represented pertain broad principles are out of date, and thenewunorinciuled liberalism, which

is so organised as to include all the disreputable people in the Colony, who happen to be out of gaol, is nding the h'gh horse. We do not wish to be misunderstood as to who are the reputable or disreputable people of the Colony. In this district we could name numbers of reputable

people in bumble circumstances,indeed sonic of them exceedingly poor, but they do honest work, pay just debts, live sober lives, and speak the truth. Such people may or may not be Knights of Labour, but they are certainly uncrowned Kings of Labour whom we are proud to consider our

friends, and who cannot be classed with the mushroom spawn of this new liberalism, which sets up for its idols men of evil reputation. We could indeed poiut out a man in this district whom we have seen working for five shillings a day, whose moral wealth, if it were distributed amongst a dozen of the worst of our liberal M.H.K.'s, would be sufficient to make decent men of the crowd. This new liberalism proposes to register in one oiganisation i national association, and our Wellington contemporary

very propeny uraws me une at we proposed union. It is phenomenal that a Ministry should now be in power on the suffrages of men with little or no stake in the community, i

and who are prepared to support any extravagant or revolutionary proposals which may be brought iorwaid. We cannot believe that a Cabinet which relies for its existence, not on liberal principles, but on muss organisations in which men of the most indifferent characters hold prominent and in some instances representative positions,can last. This bastard liberalism which really means license is cod-

ing into such disrepute that those who in former days have been considered ' the leaders of the liberal party are now openly discountenancing it. The tales told on all sides of the men whom the new liberalism returns to Parliament are no doubt more or less

exaggeiated, but even with an allowance for this they are suggestive of the idea that very many hon. members are better fitted to become inmates of a Reformatory than ol a Legislative Assembly, Mr Ballance appears to have struck the lowest key note in the scale in organising his" party following, and thero are

signs of a reaction. When a liberal journal like the Wellington p ost turns its buck on a orofessedly Liberal Cabinet there is something very rotten in the State of Denmark.

A Mastekton jury pointed out to the district judge yesterday that the sum of ten shillings per juror was inadequate for thr three days' service whicla they had rendered. Doubtless jurors are miserably paid, but the real remedy would be to abolish the juty system in our district courts. We do not think juries would De missed or regretted by either plainstiffs, defendants, or the legal profession. The public as a rule have no desire to serve as jurors, and would welcome the change.