THE MORALITY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2079, 3 November 1885, Page 2

THE MORALITY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

Oiu Te Awamutu cotiespondont wiites :— Tlie post-sessional speeches of Mi Stout and Su Julius Vogel indicate that those gentlemen aio sttong adniueis of Michia\«.oli. They have, ceit.imly adopted Ills policy. They would doubtless con-idei ••uch n policy tntioduced into business tffairs most dish'tnour.ible, but peifecth fan and legitimate in politics, though why tin* business of tbo colony should not be conducted on tho same honourable lines as pin ate business, must be a pu//le to honest men. Mi Stout shakes himself by the hand, and coutriatulates himself ,md hii constituents at tho exceedingly clover mannei in which the Nottherneis have been outwitted, and s.iys with great gusto that though otbei districts may sulfci, Otago, 01 at any rate the pait of it that lie repi events, will not suffer by tho passing of Captain Kusscll's nmtion, as a number of contiacts in his disttict had been let previous to the 1 eduction 111 tho public vvoiks vote. Ho coiiMdeis the stoppage of winks in the Noith Island n just pumshnient, becnisc its meuibois exhibited a laudablo desne to tetieiicb. Of course ho scps nothing luidable in it. bnt tho public do. Sii .Fuluis Vogel, with ineffable cfTiontoiy, said, 111 speaking of Captain Russell's motion, "A gie.it many Noith Island niombci-> followed Captain IJiisscll in voting foi the viitual suspension of tho Noith Island Timik I^ine. Theie was .1 million of money avail ible for con*ti noting it. What object could they have had in au e-"ting it, but to enable their loan t<> bo used for otliT put poses. This tho Noith Island moinbeis most emphatically deny, fn then guileless .simplicity they newt dteiimt of such ;i swindle being peipetiated. Thcii hole object vvah to stoii foi the pie-sent any fuithei boi rowing, knowing perfectly well the Tieabuiei's abilities in that direction. Without public and pt iv ate mdchtednoss New Zealand has vciy aptly been dubbed "The Cheat Loan Lind," and if Su Julius weie allowed toc.iny out his own -.weet will wo would not foifeit out ci liin to the title. In common with many othcis, 1 I think the coiistiuction of tho Tmnk line I pictnatuio, but none the loss do T think that any appiopiiation of the loan foi it to any othei puipMsp is dishonest in the extreme, fu would be agieat deal bettei if the money weie either not raised foi the pi esctit, 01 if raised, deposited at intisiost until tho tailway was leully ruquiiod. Wu hivo no claim to any of tho v.ut ctuntof native countij thiough which it pas»u-t, and will not have any while the piesent native policy is put sued. All tho ministoiial interviews with the natives have ended in smoke, and have had a tendency to mako thorn distrust us mot o than cvci. Each Native Minister foi mutates a new policy that w ill effectually settle matteis, but 111 the end the natives are 111010 bewildeied than ever, and more detcimined to keep then land. They have been taken notice of a gieat deal too much. If Mi ]siyco"s policy of lotting them alotia weio followed it Mould have had a much bettei olfeot, I wan "II the Wost Coast when the Te Whih trouble was 111 existence, and an old native told me it was all the fault of the pukohas for taking too much notice of him. Ho said in effect that when the piophet began his picaclung if ho had been taken no uotico of lie would soon have subsided, instead of which, every tune he held a meeting, the (iovornment went arepoitet then 1 and his utteionoos vvoto tclegi.iphed to Wellington and weie then published in tho papers thu« making him conceited. He thought hinisdf a great man and when he was told to desist he pospd as a ni.utvr before his follow pi s, this making a dittu nlty that cost.s tbo cojony thousands of pounds to bottle. My inf'inuant tnnv have been w pingiu thinking 'lV Whit 1 would have subsided if let alono, but at any late the old fellow's arguni'M't applius to tho native-, of Waikato. The .Maori language would be incomplete without that very coinpiebensiw wonl " T.iilioa." It saves thorn on all occasions fiom compr xuising thiMiisflves, foi if put in a coiner and piessed fi»i an undei standing, they <i]u.iys fxtiiciite tlicniselvcs by the iwe of that ino-t iisi fnl woid. In tlieii 11 itivo policy, us in eivi Vtlling nl si 1 , th • Miui-iti v It uo given evidence of their utter unlitness foi ofhee, they siilfoied dufoit afti'i (pfeat in then iiu'.iMii cm, and yi t one of then) had flu' and uity to say they had been Micoess ful in can vmg out thcii policy. Sir Julius N'o^'i I -aid tb.it any two of tlieii acts would have been eonsidined by M.IIJOI Atkinson a ti iiimph of human labour mitli1 nut for one session. Modesty is not a pioiuiueiit ti ,iit in tho Tioisuier's cli.ii'actei ; of truthfulness and honesty wo need say nothing ; he would of coins? toll us he possesses them in tin eminent d< groo Tins m a pretty general opinion, however, that if ho promised (as onco hinted by a Wellington coiiespondent) to lenvo tho colony on payment of his little claim for commission, it would be a cheap way of getting rid of him. T^t us hope that next session will find a bettei organisation in the r.'inlcs of the Opposition, :unl that belt"t men will b'> found willing to take the place of the piesent Ministiy.

'I hr Co oper ilnr Assniiitioii ailieitisc new iron, frnrinj: ro lcr->' C W.dki r'< p.iti nt. A revvard is offorcvl for a lost umlrella.