CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4258, 1 November 1892, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

j [To the Editor of tub Wairaeapa ,{ Daily Times.] • A Bush Settler on the PolitiI cat Situation. Sir, —Tlie second session of our i presont Parliament bavin!} been g brought to a close, it may not be out of place to make a fow remarks anenfc the impreesion which it has made Ou II the publio mind, ' It is now close upon two years I sinoe tba present Ministry took office, „ supported by a powerful majority—powerful at least in point of numbers 0 —and great blessings were expected to j flow through the land under its 5 benign rule. Whether those ezpaota- , tiona. have been realised (taking the country aB a whole) it would perhaps ' seem presumption,in anindivkbnj to offer an opinion, but as regardaV® 1 district in which I live I can give a ) totally accurate opinion, and I say without hesitation that no previous ( Ministry has over excited suoh unani- ! mous disgust, I Amongst the many reasons for this 1 revulsion of publio feeling the land 1 policy of the Government stands out prominently. Their seeming incapa. city to deal with this important question in an intelligent manner is in , itself, nuffioient to aocouot for much - of thoir unpopularity, Butunhappily this is only one of maoy reasons. The : sinful wasto of time for whioh they j are responsible during this last session, the unscrupulous manner in which 1 they have used the power whioh the J people so ungrudgingly placed in their | hands, the many discreditable scenes in tho House aad the absenoo of any ' useful legislative work, has roused ■ publio feeling to an unwonted pitch. The people fully understand that no Government of late years ever had suoh splendid opportunities, and co» tainly no Government ever effeoftt less reform worthy of tho name,'' One of the most remarkable features of the last General Eleotion, was that men were elected to Parliament at the bidding of the chiefs of the so ' oalled Liberal party, without any reference to their own merits as men, but merely ashard and fast supporters of the said ohiefe, so that their hands

would be free to confer everlasting benefits on their suffering country, It waß entirely on those lines that our own representative was elected and though it must be admitted that lie has kept his covenant fairly well, even to the extent of being almost subservient to the Government, that very fact in the altered state ofpublio feeling only renders his position more uncomfortable with his constituents. ' Consequently the member, who in the House expressed a desire to blow up. the jails with dynamite and introduce flogging for petty offences, is not very likely to be re-eleoted. The settlers and working men of this district aro - not likely to forget that truculent ffigp posal—or the man who made it—whea the proper time arrives, When that time does arrive Ist us hope that our House of Parliament will be.once more invested with respeotftbility. I am, etc,, • ; • Bush Settler- •.