, 1875-05-05

found knowledge of his subject: Who ever
mastered s 10 Of the Rules Of Business as we'll
as our rigorous and stern, though at the same
time forgiving, late fellow politician. He
welded that formidable weapon with a lions
courage and the tenacity of a bulldog. Hence
he was the terror of all evil-doers in the
Council who had any scheme to Drlng
forward. During his whole long Parlla-
mentary career, extending uninterruptedly-
from one election to another, he never
forgot the existence Of the s but once
when he brought forward a little scheme
of his own, to which it was unfortunately
applied. That scheme would have saved the
island, and every man, woman and child IN II.
We would nave called it " General TTdmsnIat0-
tion T~ramgfgurataon Supply Yourself FSrst
COmpamy, and under its beneficent working any
thing might have been bought for a song, and the
manager of the concern would have been the
onlv mar to suffer from it. Unfortunately the
ruthless chairman took the murderous weapon
afforded by S 10 by the tail, after the manner OF
certain rurals, and gave the whole scheme such a
blow on the head as to send it into the sea, where
the monopolies were destined to have gone.
ANY other man than the stOut-hearted
subject of our sketch would have grieved to
death at the mere thought Of his political fond
ling undergoing such a fate, but not SO our de-
plored late Member of the Colonial Council.
No sooner had his darling departed. but he i'm
mediately, you could almost say with feverish
zeal, adopted another mans pickaninny, astout
fellow by this time by the name of Cent. Fact,
ALIAS Island Saver. So we are told, and we are
now even assured that the politically departed
had always a strong hankering after the promls-
ing Gent. Fact, and so great was the wisdom OF
the man that we have no reason to doubt that ne
fully believed that we mightha ave had both among
us now, getting for the one some 100000
and for the other some $4,000. Nothing
is impossible with real men of progress In the
Council, such as the subject of this poor sketch,
but, of course, with such lags as Governor
Garde, it 10 not an easy matter. So much we
may say here that, but for that unfortunate
crash of the grand scheme our lamented fellow
citizen might have been in a fair way Of getting
wind in his canvass for many a year to come.
There are those who complain that "~solicita.
tons for silence (by whom y have had so
little influence on the politically departed
whose spirit is still haunting them in the
columns of the Avis. Not even the paragraph
in the last proclamation-ln which the late
legislator raises q warning voice from his in
voluntary extra-parliamentary existence to
the SolOns of the future to look after the
coming Colonial Law to have it mended so
as to preserve Crucian elections as pure as
anv canvasser for self could wish them-wil
make such people see the wisdom OF his
action. To elect men that must be impure.
because they were in opposition to a man who
must be pure, because he says he wants to
have laws to guard the purity Of elections
and personal character, is a sad sign OF the
~iniquity of the times. 0 tempora, o moresl
0 We canvassers, how long shall we yet bear
with youl
This simple political obituary has grown
longer than was intended, and I shall now
conclude by the usual
Requiescat in pace
Yet another word, and then no more
The delay in forwarding this obituary like
another important document, has been oc-
casioned by solicitations for silence, but my
sense of truth and justice has prevailed over
all the solicitations.
A Borrowing VOTER.
FRANCE.