DEMOCRACY A FAILURE IN NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2272, 1 February 1887, Page 3

DEMOCRACY A FAILURE IN NEW ZEALAND.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—Democracy has been a complete failure here in New Zealand. The shameless, greedy and grasping have had it all their own way; the backward, modest, the mild and meek, have been nowhere. Man here in New Zealand is too imperfect a being to be intrusted with having a say in his own management. Democracy has been the power here, and what has been the outcome? Debasement, rottenness, contempt and corruption all round; bribery rampant; long-tried good and true men being denounced by blatant upstarts. Why, in Christchurch one fellow of mushroom growth and capacity had the daring to compare Mrßolleston to Judas Iscariot ! Shame on you, Canterbury, that you did not ride that fellow on a rail. Truly democracy is ungrateful. Mr Editor, I can easily see if our so-called liberties were, taken from us, and if we were ruled by a Crown Governor —I can easily see the good things would be much more fairly .divided amongst us. We would be ail :alike to him. He would have no personal •.interest in working dodges and oracles ; he would be neutral, and it is a natural instinct in most men, when personal interest •,is not in the way, to be just and fair. Now ievery one must see that the education •of this country is not conducted in a fair manner. Six miles from here there is a district in which there are children growing up without having a chance to learn A. B. C. and at the same time there are hundreds of pounds being spent on playgrounds for the schools in Auckland. This education luxury in the one place and the complete starvation in the other—this unjustness—is the outcome of democracy. It is the fat sow all over. A Crown Governor would distribute the fat all over. Mr E'litor, I think Auckland is greedy and grasping. She comes in for all the great bequests, the Costly hundred thousand, the Mackelvie fifty thousand, the Sinclair-Gillies ten thousand,, and still she would grab all the education grant and starve the outlying districts. I think the education grant should be divided amongst the counties and not given in one lump .sum to the province. Rich Auckland would then only have its fair share, and the outlying districts would have their share. If the Auckland poople want fine playgrounds let them dip their hands in their own pockets. Retrenchment must be the order of the day. In no case whatever must the Government provide luxuries; let us have necessities bnt no luxuries, scholarships, high schools. Let those who reap pay.—Yours obediently, Haraph'l.