REPLY 10 "JULIAN."

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2999, 3 October 1891, Page 2

REPLY 10 "JULIAN."

to ■run Kiiirou. Sin,—" Julian " in your issue of Tuesday last makes a must extraordinary prop.>sal, viz., that every nieojber of the House should have ii policy of his own. Given a Parliament composed of such moil ami chaos would be the result, for each man would Ijb so taken up Willi Ins particular lad or fads that lie Would see no merit in the proposals of others. We do not want an assembly nf t>2->ti.%U l.» li-fjisiiittt for n» ; snub a state would he wor-i' t if possible, than exists at pi-Hs-nt. "Julian" objects to a man pledged to vote as the, leader of the Opposition sees fit to dictate, mi the ground, 1 presume, of its being un wise for any man to surrender his independence. When the motion to expunge the vole of censure on .Mr Biyce was put in the it was carried on the voices, ami but for the meddlesome interference r,f Mi' J-], M, Smith would have been carried. Oil a division being called foi', the men who voted with the ayes walked into the lobby with the noes not of their mvn free will, but at the instance of their chief, Mr liallance, Here wis a plain instance of the surrender of their independence at the command of thenleader. Yet in the face of this fact " Julian " finds fault with Mr Like becauso he professes to believe be (Mr Lake) would be similarly guilty. Independence in members at the present juncture would mean having too many Zachariah Zebedees in tho House. That a certain amount of that quality is necessary 111 every man I quite admit, as for example that exhibited by Messrs Palmer and Carroll in the Bryce episode ; hut at present the issues are so olearly defined that sitting on a rail will not suit the requirements of the Waikato electors.—l am, &e , R. W. Kochk.