Corruption In High Places.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 271, 13 October 1884, Page 3

Corruption In High Places.

(Waipawa Mail.) The tone of political honesty and right feeling has undergone a great change since the advent of Sir Julius Vogelto power. A retrograde step m the Licensing Law has been actively encouraged and supported j.the alwHtion of the law against gambling is liked to be carried; aud a Bill to take, over the. speculations of certain private Railway Companies, which m reality amounts to the most barefaced attempt lo rob a people that has ever been attempted, are proofs m support of our opening remnrK This Railway scheme which is to saddle the colony with an expenditure of £600,000, according to Sir Julius Yogel, or £1,000,000 according to Mr Montgomery, wl.o is a most_reliable judge m matters of this kind, is the most attdaciou* proposal yet sub mitted to a New Zealand Parliament. It may safely be said that all these conce/ns would be dear at £250,000. The roads are badly constructed, m fact they are speculators' roads, made to sell lamls. which have bi>en sold for the most part, >nd it is now Advisable for the promoters to get rid of the burden, ia order to relieve the speculators and land-jobliers, but this ig the T'Olicy of the. present Government, -which seem* to be Liberal only m name. "We certainly looked for better things from a Ministry of which Mr Stout is the head and Mr Ballance an influential member, both oM fel-low-labourers and personal friends of our. own m times gone, by, and it is with regret we see tbom m thoir- present evil company. The lookout is not a cheerful one, with a Minister holding a nominally subordinate position, but m reality absolute m iinfluonce, with his head f»«U of the -wildest schemes, operating on a peojiie feverishly anxiows to grow rich, and -whose ear he seems to have fully caught; and all this bodes no good to those who will be compelled to "raalke these islands their home. , ; \