When Si is sari that the East and West Coast Railway of the Middle Island is npt of vital importance to the West Coast', it does not follow that it is not a necessity that will have to be supplied some day. But 'to force it on upon a bad principle, and at a great and irretrievable sacrifice to the colony, constitutes a pernicious phase of politics that ought to make those blush who voted for it. But the other day the high and holy principles of land nationalisation were enunciated, and recom mended, and who so loud in their praise as the present Premier. We were also encouraged to hope that preventing the foul growth of pauperism. The welfare of the people, the establishing a really pure democracy was the end to be compassed. And, now corruption and vacillation are in the ascendent. Instead of land nationalisation we have gone in for the alienation of land for the purpose of ring making, and instead of farsighted legislation, to keep pauperism at arm’s length, we are going to lay a wide and deep foundation fur it to rest upon, by scat tering a few millions broadcast to be scrambled for, but which will have to bo paid hereafter by a circumscribed and Impoverished | com munity. For who will care about casting in their fortunes With a Colony, so burdened with debt as Kew Zealand; But finder the new regime, lbs present is only considered, the future niay go hang.
