LIFE PENSIONERS.
The threat to make a number of additional appointments to the'.Legislative Council, notwithstanding that the Government is in a minority, has not been favorably received throughout the colony. The old order of things is changing and the people are not inclined to remain dormant while politicians are making places for their friends, without regard for the public interest. The best thing the Government can do is to repeat the welltried tactic of backing down as gracefully as possible, against the storm of public opinion which has been beaten tip. The Wanganui Herald comments verystrongly on the altitude taken up by the Government. The names of the proposed Councillors (says the Herald) are as follows Messrs J. D. Ormond, J. B. White, O. Samuel, Downie Stewart, and Fulton. Others have been mentioned, but the above are in the select list to whom promises have been made. The two first retired from the field, as they said themselves, because the House was not good enough for them, and they are going to dignify the Council by their august and most disinterested presence. Mr Ormond was disgusted because the House would not validate his rotten titles. Mr Whyte is the agent for the Globo Assets Company, and has been a kind of political land agent, whose pure soul shrinks from a stonewall when a job has to be stonewalled 1 The third, Mr O. Samuel’s proposed elevation, is new and startling. U nder various pretences he kept out of the House in 1880 when a motion of no confidence came to the vote ; abused honester men than himself during the recess, when he turned round on the Opposition ; and went bodily over last session. As the price of bis perfidy, he is to be rewarded by a life pension in the Legislative Council. Mr Downie Stewart did his spiriting more gently, but waddled about with the price of his ratting plainly labelled on his back. Mr Fulton is the only unobjectionable politician of the pack, and no objection could be taken to his appointment,' except that it is proposed by a beaten Ministry. If the people do not open their eyes to the nature of tbe conspiracy intended, they are purblind indeed, Rats t to whom seats in
the Legislative Council have been offered as the reward of their ratting, with the leading members of the speculative land rings, are to be enthroned for life to keep the people in check ! Shall it be ?
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 552, 3 January 1891, Page 2
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413LIFE PENSIONERS. Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 552, 3 January 1891, Page 2
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