RETRENCHMENT RIGHT, RETRENCHMENT WRONG.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2261, 6 January 1887, Page 3

RETRENCHMENT RIGHT, RETRENCHMENT WRONG.

TO THE EDITOR. dm, —Colon us in the Auckland Herald has been trying to show that education makes men criminals. He makes out a very good argument, but never for a moment do'l believe that be himself believes what he writes ; a man of the stamp of Colomus knows that he is talking gammon ; it is the expense of the education, only he has not the courage to *a.v so. Now, Mr Editor, I have always from the very first been against borrowing and spending, no man more 30, still I have never had any bitter feeling against spending money on education. No doubt I have been very much uinoye'i at the unnecessary luxuries, mad, ioolisb luxuries, which could only in the nd imperil the whole scheme, and of vliich there is now great danger. Mr Kditor, retrenchment must be the order of

be day. For the last fifteen years, we, as a ■:.-.■ iple, every one of ns without an excep-i-.tii, have been beggars on horseback, and .s a nation, we have been riding to the. t'vii at railway speed, and how fearfully shabby we are loo—bits of bodies raised by » political fluke into brief authority in play fantastic tricks. Shakspere was n .;reat prophet, ten times greater than ';,](iiniin. Ho could see three hundred years ito futurity. He had New Zealand in his •ye when he wrote about men playing fantastic tricks. Mr Editor, the Marquis if Salisbury has defended from a long line if ancestors, the Cecil family belongs to >ur history, t>llo of his forefathers wa> <ecretary to Queen Elizabeth, ho live> in a house of historical fame, ne has retainers, and is served bv .Hid with all the pomp and splendour of he feudal times of old. This would almost >•: an excuse for him to imagine that he •.vas made of China clay, and not of pipe ;:;iy, as you and I. But no, he is above u:iat sort of thing, when he travels from London to Edinburgh, like you and I, he teps into a railway carriage and becomes me (if ourselves, he is not afraid of catching the Maori itch from us, Mr Editor v'ou must come to the colonies for your Jhina clay man. We rend ni the papers the rfinemoa has arrived in the Manakan narhour with the Hon. Mr Tole 011 board lSow I would like to ask why the Hon. Mr

L'ole cannot travel by the Union boats anil <o save the expense? This trip alone would <eep a school for a year. Six miles from .ere there are twenty qhiidren, and in a tew years there will be forty. Tltesn cliil tren are having noeduoation. To think that nhirf , should be, and that the Hon. Mr Tole hould have a steamer to himself. To think .if the necessary good the twenty :ire denied, and the, unnecessary luxury the '•ne has got! Well, it is enough to think the good things of this world are not equally divided. God knows I never wa« .1 revolutionist, but the way things are carried on here by sham liberals, tin pot shoddy politicians, who discuss and settle great questions, and all the time they know no more of what they are talking about than they do of the origin of man. It is enough to think that it is high time there was a revolution here, and that we were governed by Sir William Jervois, and by him alone. Mr Editor, retrenchment must be the order of the day, the Hinemoa must be scuttled and sunk, she and her gilded china an 1 her velvet couches must go to the bottom of the sea, so that the expense of keeping her up ceases. She and all her splendour was the creation of Sir Julius Vogel, the creation of borrowed money, the creation of a stake, that stake which was the welfare and good

of a country, and like all gambling stake-! in the long run, is sure to end in disaster. But little cured he. He was having his fling and gamble at the country's expense, and he will laugh and chuckle how he has ont-inancpnvered m. Rut, poor man ! little does lie think that sooner or later he will, coino to the end «f his tether. Mr Editor, if you take the purchase money and the expense of keeping up the Hineujoa, I don't think I would be over the mark, if I say this sum would support twenty schools, Now, to think that 240 children should go without education,"and that the Hinemoa should be kept on, is a crime against the people of New Zealand. No small crime, but .1 crime of the deepest dye. Nero fiddled whon Home - was burning. Sir G. Grey and Sir J. Vogel have fiddled N<nv Zealand to destruction, Ijet us arise out of our ashen, let us be guided by wisdom, let there arise from Southland to the North Cupe one loud and universal shout f-ir Sir John Hall. Sir John miuht prevail upon Sir I , '. Whitaker to forgo the desire jf.iiTPstin his old days, and so have "the twnefit of his great experience and wisdom. At any rate, John Bryce is young p.nd strong. He would be sure of his help. However, a*, the best we must never look to be the prosperous O'Untry we wquld have been if we bad uover heen debauched by Grey and Vogel. A rake is never the same man, no matter how he may nurse himself. True, he may have a comparative amount of health. After all our madness Sir J. Hall, Sir P. WhitaUer, and John Biyoe ni.iy give us this comparative prosperity. Still, this is much better than complete destruction, therefore let the cry be long and loud for Sir J. Hall.—l am, yours obediently, Habapipi.