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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4986, 27 March 1895, Page 2

Tiik other day the Government, openly violated its " spoils to the victors" policy by offering Sir Robert Stout the position of lending counsel in the Midland Arbitration case, and people at once thought" Is this an olive branch held out to a political foe." If one were, the olive branch was exceedingly fruitful for who can calculate the sum to which the fees of a leading counsel in a big case may amount \ Had Sir Robert accepted tbo offer, hard things would have been thought of him, and it is a positive relief to hoar that while expressing willingness to assist the Government lie will not accept a fee, We come across so little disinterestedness amongst public men now-a-days, that the course taken by Sir Robert Stout is almost a shock to us, The high professional reputation of Sir Robert Stout may have justified the Government in its desire to employ his services, but are we, after all the experience we have had of the" Spoils to the Victors" policy, to also attribute disinterestedness to the Government. Is there virtue in the Scddon Ministry, oristhechangc of front the prelude to a death-bed repentance.