(Taranaki Budget).

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1454, 27 October 1881, Page 3

(Taranaki Budget).

lhe most extraordinary patience and forbearance have been the chief characteristics of the Government and the West Coast settlers during the last two years, partly arising from the hope that Te Whiti, who always preached peace, would accept the situation and quietly settle down with his people at Parihaka,. and partly because of the enormous responsibility which rested on the Governitpi if they, by any hasty action, involve<pthe districtin the honors of war, and were the unwitting caupe of hundreds of families abandoning their homes at the first ring of the rifle. This reluctance to proceed to extremities cannot be implied as a fault to the Government, 03 the highest function of a Government is to promote the good of the people they govern. But there are times w lien oven war must be risked in order to .avert

greater evils ; foi 4 when power ie resorted to to accomplish unlawful ends—whether that power presents itself in armed masses of men or iv masses unarmed— the result is tho same, and the difference is only in degree.