If these and similar things are being permitted, youv children, and descendants must become paupers. They mu t live in a state of subordination and Servitude. Conse quently, they will have to Ive in a state of comparative ignorance, because, I be lieve, the education system will be abolished. I saw only thh very day a proposal for abolishing education, and for putting the whole of the taxes on Cus tonw duties. .This was a proposal to in crease the duties on all the necessaries of life, for relieving the land of all charges. Tkis wa« considered a most admirable proposition, and was well taken up and received. (Cries of "Shame.") I say if you do not bestir yourselves to take some step that will place the colony in a state of security against such enrichments, New Zealand "will be irreparably ruined. If this comes to pass, which I have fore shadowed, it is then certain that the ownership of them themselves will pass into the hands of men who own the land. Those persons are legislating in that direction at present in every possible way. They give a man five votes over another man's one. The tenor of legislation I therefore say is contrary to the welfare of the country, and those who regard the future with interest cannot fail to observe it with fear and appreheiisiop. But it is argued that your institutions are becom ing venerable. The Legislative Conncil is just twenty-seven years old. They say you must get rid of anything you com plain of only constitutionally - that is, by means of the institutions themselves. I say you will never get rid of them in that way. I say that we might follow the ex ample of the United States in matters of this kind, aud these •' American" gentle men might show us the way. I say we have a right to do as they dc in America —to elect a convention for the express purpose of altering what brings these evils about. I say that such a convention has both the right and the power to amend the Constitution in accordance with the wishes^ of the people, and when the Constitution is amended the people ought to submit to it. 