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THE BULLETIN
Fix this textVol 3 —No. 131 -New SerlM.
Fix this textSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1885.
Fix this textFrloe—6d.
Fix this textThe Bulletin .
Fix this textSATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 1886.
Fix this textGovernment by Picnic.
Fix this textIn New South Wales representative Govern-
Fix this textment presents many anomalies. It has not
Fix this textfollowed the lines followed by it in other
Fix this textcountries. Its development has been after
Fix this texta different fashion. Broadly speaking, in
Fix this textall other countries where Parliamentary
Fix this textGovernment is recognised, the people are
Fix this textdivided into two great parties—one com-
Fix this textposed of all those averse to change, and the
Fix this textother of those who believe that change is
Fix this texta universal law—that man cannot stand
Fix this textstill, but must move either forward like
Fix this textEuropeans, or backward like Asiatics, and
Fix this textthat stagnation means death. These primary
Fix this textdivisions are acain split up into various sec-
Fix this texttions. On many important points these
Fix this textsections differ. Though marching under the
Fix this textsame banners, bad language constantly
Fix this textpasses between those who form the body-
Fix this textguard of the Marquis of Salisbury—de-
Fix this textscendant of that “Spider Cecil,” of Eliza-
Fix this textbeth’s reign, who “racked” more men,
Fix this textand devoured more monasteries than any
Fix this textone of his time—and those who cluster round
Fix this textLord Randolph Churchill, whose family
Fix this texthas lived on the fat of the land for two
Fix this textcenturies, owing to the leap taken by
Fix this text“ handsome Jack Churchill ” from th®
Fix this textchamber window of Barbara Palmer, one
Fix this textof the many mistresses of the Defender of
Fix this textthe Faith Charles II., when the guilty
Fix this textpair heard His Majesty knocking at the
Fix this textfront door. Similar differences exist be-
Fix this texttween the sections in the rival camp. There
Fix this textis little in common between the Red
Fix this textRadical and the Whig Marquis of Harting-
Fix this textton, whose progenitor CaveSdish was a
Fix this textgood second to his royal master, Henry
Fix this textVIII., in the marriage business, and who. in
Fix this textsecuring the reversion of stolen property,
Fix this textcould hold his own in any age or company.
Fix this text• • •
Fix this textIn New South Wales, on the other hand,
Fix this textnot only are the sectional differences in the
Fix this textranks of the contending partiei unknown,
Fix this textbut the parties themselves have no exist-
Fix this textence. Between wrangling politicians in New
Fix this textSouth Wales there exists no fundamental
Fix this textdifferences of policy such as separate the
Fix this textfollowers of Lord Salisbury from those of
Fix this textMr. Chamberlain, the French “Right”
Fix this textfrom the “Left,” tne American Democrat
Fix this textfrom the Republican, or even the Victorian
Fix this textConservative from the earnest voter of Col-
Fix this textlingwood Flat who plumps for Mr. Mirams.
Fix this textIn New South Wales the words Whig, Tory,
Fix this textConservative, Liberal, Left, Right, Centre
Fix this textor Mountain have no meaning. Politics are
Fix this textpurely personal. It is not a war of rival
Fix this textprinciples but a Donnybrook of windy
Fix this textpoliticians. It is not a question of halting
Fix this textor advancing, but merely one of personal
Fix this textliking or antipathy. The result of this
Fix this textchaotic state of affairs is partly deplorable
Fix this textand partly whimsical. It is deplorable
Fix this textinasmuch as owing to it not only have
Fix this textdisgraceful Acts been kept upon the
Fix this textStatute Book, but laws have been
Fix this textpassed which, as an amalgam of stu-
Fix this textpidity and savagery, need not shrink
Fix this textfrom a comparison with recent Chinese
Fix this textlegislation. It was John Stuart Mill who,
Fix this textin his “Essay on Liberty,” roused the indig-
Fix this textnation of England by bringing up the case
Fix this textof a half-witted rustic who was at the time
Fix this textundergoing a long term of imprisonment
Fix this textfor express ng doubts concerning the early
Fix this textlife of Jesus. Thegreat mass of Englishmen
Fix this textwere unaware that such iniquitous laws
Fix this textexisted or that, even if unrepealed, any
Fix this textmagistrates could be found insensate enough
Fix this textto put them in operation. Buckle, it will
Fix this textbe remembered, wrote with blistering mor-
Fix this textdancy on the matter. So here, the vast
Fix this textmajority of the people of New South Wales
Fix this textknow nothing of the barbarous laws with
Fix this textwhich prominent politicians, who impu-
Fix this textdently assume to be in line with the advanc-
Fix this texting civilisation of old countries, have
Fix this textblurred the pages of the Statute Book. To
Fix this textgive a couple of instances. During the re-
Fix this textcent elections Sir Henry Parkes boasted
Fix this textthat if the laws which he was instrumental
Fix this textin passing were erased from the colonial
Fix this textStatute Book little but a blank would re-
Fix this textmain. A thousand times better that the
Fix this textbook had never been opened than that the
Fix this textTreason Felony Act of 1868 and the Criminal
Fix this textConsolidation Act of 1882—both the handi-
Fix this textwork of him whose vanity found vent in the
Fix this textvaunt that England could teach New South
Fix this textWales nothing—should have appeared there.
Fix this textWhen the author of the Education Act is
Fix this textforgotten, the author of the foregoing mea-
Fix this textsures will he remembered —and cursed.
Fix this textIt was only the other day that a magazine
Fix this textarticle in a neighbouring colony pointed
Fix this textout the humiliating fact that eighteen of-
Fix this textfences in New South Wales were punishable
Fix this textby death, while the unheard-of abomination
Fix this textof periodically torturing men suffering life-
Fix this textlong imprisonment was of common occur-
Fix this textrence. This is the deplorable side of the
Fix this textabsence of well-defined parties in the colony
Fix this textof New South Wale - .
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Fix this textIn making it dangerous for a man, if he
Fix this textwould escape whipping, to sit in the same
Fix this textroom with any female except his wife, it
Fix this textmight appear that it was in the interests of
Fix this textvirtue the Criminal Consolidation law was
Fix this textpasreL How untenable such a supposition
Fix this textwould be will become obvious on examining
Fix this textthe moral characters of some of those
Fix this textwho supported it. As in Victoria the
Fix this textsatyrs of a generation ago are the saints
Fix this textof to-day, and mumble their admiration for
Fix this textmeasures which will throw hundreds of
Fix this texthonest women out of work, so elsewhere, the
Fix this textmen whom, some years ago, no one would
Fix this textthink of introducing to his family, are, in
Fix this texttheir old age, the very ones who have placed
Fix this textit in the power of an absolute trull to have a
Fix this textdecent man scourged by the common hang-
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Fix this textBut it is time to look at the whimsical
Fix this textside of the matter. When elections take
Fix this textplace in the British Islands, or, indeed, in
Fix this textany constitutionally-governed country but
Fix this textNew South Wales, there is no need for the
Fix this textleaders to remain in doubt concerning the
Fix this textstrength of their followers. Directly the
Fix this textlast numbers go up the position of par-
Fix this textlies can be told. Long before the
Fix this textnext Parliament assembles at West-
Fix this textminster the whole world will know
Fix this textwhether the destinies of three hundred
Fix this textmillions of people are to be watched over
Fix this textby Lord Salisbury or by Mr. Gladstone.
Fix this textThis system might do for 1 he British Empire,
Fix this textbut it lacks the element of uncertainty so
Fix this textdear to New South Wales. In order to dis-
Fix this textcover his chances of upsetting the Bibbs’
Fix this textGovernment, Sir John Robertson has de-
Fix this textcided to give an open-air entertainment to
Fix this textthe members of the Assembly. Those who
Fix this textaccept his invitation he will look upon as
Fix this textfriends—as foes upon those who decline.
Fix this textThis may be called “Government by Pic-
Fix this textnic.” Whether he will include Mr. Bibbs
Fix this textand the other members of the Ministry in
Fix this textthe invitation has not, we believe, been
Fix this textfinally decided. Matters, of course, will be
Fix this textsomewhat compile ated should the Premier
Fix this textand the other Ministeis receive invitations
Fix this textand accept them. Men are frequently their
Fix this textown worst enemies, but their enmity is
Fix this textseldom so virulent as to induce them to
Fix this textturn them elves out of ollioe. We shall
Fix this textwatch with interest the now departure in
Fix this textpolitics inaugurated by Sir John Robertson.
Fix this textWe have always suspected that there was
Fix this textmore in this veteran politician than many
Fix this textpeople supposed—that the Land Act of 1861
Fix this textdid not exhaust all his originality. This
Fix this text“picnic” proposal of Lis shows that our
Fix this textdiagnosis was correct. Besides this, it sug-
Fix this textgests that Sir Henry Parkis was, perhaps,
Fix this textnot so far wrong when he said that the
Fix this textcolonies had nothing to learn from England.
Fix this textWhether England is not too conceited to
Fix this textlearn from the colonies remains to be seen.
Fix this textProbably nothing would do so much to
Fix this textcement the Empire, arouse Australian
Fix this textloyalty, and lead up to that grand confedera*
Fix this texttion which Mr. Dallby, from his Pisgah of
Fix this textthe Upper House, sees in the distance, than a
Fix this textpicnic given by the Nonconforming Mr.
Fix this textChamberlain to the feitf hundred Tories
Fix this textwho lately pledged themselves to keep sacri-
Fix this textlegious hands off the Church’s fat livings, or
Fix this texta similar entertainment given by Lord
Fix this textSalisbury to the Liberal party, including
Fix this textMr. Timothy Healy, Mr. Labouchere, and
Fix this textMr. Bradlaugh.
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Fix this textWo have seen that In other countries laws
Fix this textare the resultants of the struggle between
Fix this textinertia and motion—between the Toryism
Fix this textwhich condemns God for disturbing Chaos
Fix this textby creating the world, and the Radicalism
Fix this textwhich cannot understand that the liberty
Fix this textof one individual should always end where
Fix this textthe liberty of another begins. But in New
Fix this textSouth Wales everything is different. There
Fix this textis not a politician to whom one would be
Fix this textjustified in applying the term, Conservative,
Fix this textLiberal, Democrat, or Radical. To a stranger
Fix this textwho asked, “ Have you a Liberal or a Conser-
Fix this textvative Government in office?” the Sydney
Fix this textresident would be forced to reply “Neither.
Fix this textRobertson and Parkes have fired out
Fix this textStuart and Dalley, but what they are
Fix this textor what their predecessors were I am quite
Fix this textunable to say.” The result of Ih's oblitera-
Fix this texttion of party lines, this adhesion to persors
Fix this textinstead of principles, is that the views of the
Fix this textmajority of the electors seldom find their
Fix this textway to the front, and more seldom still
Fix this textsecure a place in the Statute Book. The
Fix this texttime which should be given to the repeal of
Fix this textvicious or the enacting of useful legislation
Fix this textis taken up with petty personal squabbles in
Fix this textwhich no principle is involved. Thus it is
Fix this textthat New South, Wales, the mother of the
Fix this textcolonies, is so shamefully behindhand in
Fix this textmany things that her very name has
Fix this textbecome synonymous with supineness.
Fix this textWhile the political pendulum is swinging
Fix this textfrom Dalley to Parkes and back again
Fix this texta magnificent public estate is frittered
Fix this textaway, the mining laws remain a model of
Fix this textoumbrousness, unclean towns become the
Fix this textnurseries of preventible disease, and, if a
Fix this textsnag requires to be removed from a Mur-
Fix this textrumbidgee; Billabong, the publican, the
Fix this textblacksmith and the barber—honest trades-
Fix this textmen, dubbed “ our leading citizens” by the
Fix this textlocal Press—who form the c rente of the
Fix this textnearest township are obliged to visit Sydney
Fix this textand prove to the Minister that the progress
Fix this textof their district towards refinement of a high
Fix this textorder depends on the prompt destruction of
Fix this textthe defiant stump.
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Fix this textIs there no remedy for all this ? There is
Fix this textbut one—the division of the people and con-
Fix this textHON. J. B. PATTBRSON, M.L.A., OF VICTORIA.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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