Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4215, 10 September 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878]

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1892.

BKIHO TDK IXTKHDED IJIIE 01 IDE Wjurarapa Daily, with which it is IDENTIOAIi.

The olsrer writer of Political Notes in the Nm Zealand, Tim, a journal which has been for some months past run in the Government interests, speaks of " the last sigh of the freeholder." The wit of the phrnze lies somewhat in the truthfulness of the idea it conveys, Just as our friends the Russians have insidiously and persistently drawn a cordon round northern India, so the Government have for some time past been engaged in a quiet but. determined effort to ring-bark the freehold title .in this Colony. They dare not openly propose to destroy it, but the chiefs of the party are, in the main, avowed Land Nationalists, and they are diligently engaged in undermining a time-honoured institution which they have not the courage to kill openly. It is, perhaps, rather early for one oi their supporters to talk about " the last sigh of the freeholder," but it is quite time that the somnolent freeholder himself woke up before his title is filched from him. We hope to hear, not of " the kt sigh of the freeholder," for sighing after all is a silly, sorry business, but of his last kick at the men who are wantonly destroying the fruits of his industry and toil. The last sigh of the freeholder will' come some day it the present party remains in power, but before that sigh is emitted we trust the freeholders themselves will have something to . say and something to do, If they remain quiescent much longer they must hot complain if their freeholds become converted into leaseholds-if they become a race of serfs instead of a community of yeomen.