, 1874-08-08

one card, Central Factories. One man at
least will not be disappointed, and that is
your humble correspondent, for, although
/ fully agree with you that it will be an
immense stride in the right direction, still I
cannot see any reason for hoping that the
adoption of the improvement will obviate
the necessity of the reduction for which
we nave been clamouring but not hop
ing anything shall not be disappointed
when my opinions are verified.
Governor Billie said in substance if we
have a revenue of SO and SO much, which
we can have if an acre of land yields SO
and so much, we need not curtail expenses.
Governor Garde seems to say in substance:
if we have a revenue of SO and so much,
which we can have if we get Central Fac
tories, we need not curtail expenses. The
difference seems to many people q hairs
breadth. shall not be disappointed if the
one 'Jf7' turns out no better than the other,
but then my name may partly account fox
this perhaps peculiar sentiment of mine.
I often reason to myself in the
following placid strain, and that is,
| think, what renders my temper SO even
and sweet: When we have a rainy year,
we need not retrench, for then we get a
surplus, or at least, we used to, when
prices were good, and when we are parch-
ed up, as we have been now for years,
we need not retYench, for we have always
one door open, we can beg, and comfort
ourselves with a beggar's consolation that
there is no dishonesty in begging, but
only in stealing. Not to be disappointed,
/ have given up hopes Of seeing our public
expenses brought down to a figure we can
bear, as you seem to hope, so that in good
years we could make a reserve fund, as
| have seen you advocate, tor the bad
ones, and not be forced to the humiliation
of begging. BY our own means we shall
never be able to accomplish that, but the
Diet, when our loan project comes before
that body. will probably find out for Go
vernment and Council where the retrench-
ments can be made so as to make us self
supporting. What will then become of
our reputation for economical sense, /
shall not say. One thing is certain we
need not then intrude upon the otium Of
the honorable Chairman of the Colonial
Council to call a meeting to discuss the
Committees two requests. By the by, |
do not think that much would be lost by
their not being brought to such discussion.
otherwise than as a sort of diUertsss enaemt
public TO ease the heart a little for the time
being, for between the zeal of the Chair
man and others in the Council and the
Mastery Inactivity of Government, the
fate of the Drafts would Individually be
Identical with that of heaps of Drafts be-
fore them they would be buried in Com
mittees, as SO many others have been, from
that on the Colonial Law down to that on
Colonial Porterage," subjecting people of
all sorts to still more disappointments,
from first class Colonial Politicians and
Taxpayers down to second and third class
Colonial Porters and Taxpayers.
There are many more disappointments,
Mr.. Editor, one even relative to your pa
per, which is considered as rather mastery
inactive in local politics, but the readers
of these lines having, no doubt, been often
disappointed before, may suffer one more
disappointment, and wait till it suits the
writer to compose the second chapter.
Yours, etc.
SLOTH.