Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1895. AMERICAN NOTIONS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4923, 11 January 1895, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [Established 1874.] FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1895. AMERICAN NOTIONS.

The Pbbmieii, in his Milika speech 1 this week, explained that there were , I some objectionable clauses in the I Undesirable Immigrants Bill of Inst ' session, but that they were copied from an American Act by his coli league-now known to fame as Un- . desirable Bill Reeves and escaped scrutiny before being brought into the House. People now know bow j tho Government prepare their bills i and are able to turn them out in I'batches a, few hours before the session j opens!' The Government import American notions, all the latest legislative socialistic novelties, label them New Zealand instead of Utah 1 or Chicago, and work them off on our' House of Representatives as a home made article, This is how the reputation of our New Zealand Liberal i Statesman is being built up. All the socialistic rags of America are collected \by our Undesirable Bill Reeves, and without being cleaned or sorted they are forced on the unhappy colony by the Government majority, that majority which is in pawn to IMr Seddon, When onr Undesirable \ Bill Reeves was interviewed about the Shop and Shop Hours Act the other day, he seemed altogether at sea with regard to its provisions, Probably the measure comes from Ai'kansas'or some other lively State, and was passed into law here before the Ministry had time to puzzle out the meaning of it. Of course Ministers know that their friends here want legislation" all hot," and they are giving it to them accordingly. The Premier, in his late speech, however, omitted to tell us what other American notions are being imported for the coming session, though he promised to reintroduce to famous " Undesirable Immigrants Bill." In a recent visit to New South Wales our Minister, of Labour publicly declared that he was a straight out Socialist, and we begin to understand his fondness for American ideas, and his temerity in copying them. In the United States almost every conceivable form of Socialism has been tried, and has in most instances disappointed the expectations of the fanatics who have promoted such experiments, but in that vast territory .there is room for many little Socialistic veutures, and the general condition of the conntry is not • affected- by them. Here in 'New Zealand it is different, because the Government of the day force on the ; whole Colony' 'socialistic crudities, ; In America the President and his ; Ministers.are never .fourid advocat- ! ing' or attempting Socialistic legisla- j tion, • •. J