To the Editor of the Daily Southern Ciiobs. Sin,-— lt seems to be the fashion amongst many persons to attribute, at least, to a great extent, the financial difficulties which now surround this province to the number of salaried officers which it has had ill its Bervice. It is said that they are too well paid; and whenever the Council meets, an attempt is made to reduce their salaries, as though this were a sure panacea for all the ills we a*'.e now Buffering from. This view of the case s^ems to me a most contracted one. It is not my intention to defend Government officers; in son;© cases, perhaps, salaries could be conveniently and lafely cut down, and perhaps here and thet',o * department might be abolished with safety iO the public interests. The real cause of the present difficulty which our Provincial Govern ment is in, is bad legislation. We have had selfish legislation, and this, in the end, is sure to result in disaster. Extreme selfishness in politics, as well as in everything else, is bad policy. We have had extravagant lepisla tion not so much in increasing the staff of Government officers as in the throwing away enormous sums on useless works. Witness the railway. £113,000 already swallowed up by that monstrous job ! Why can't people loolc at the real cause of their trouble? We cannot redeem ourselves by miserable cheese-paring. We must strike at the root of the evil, and this must be by refusing to place in power incom petent and unscrupulous men. Unless we have a higher political morality than we have hitherto had, the province will not be able to to extricate itself from its present unfortunate position. Hitherto the highest office in the province has been made the vehicle for placing in power the representative of some clique to carry out its own particular ends, or for selfisli or monetary interests on the part of the Super intendent himself. The real welfare of the people seems never to have been thought of; and the people were silly and foolish enough to look on like imbeciles, as though they were too craven-hearted to insist on their just rights being attended to. 