, 1894-03-10

Colonial Council then the Administration
would have every right to spend 500, 900
every year above what is received, or as much
as they like. But as long as we have a Bud
get for the Colony, which we are asked to
pass. aud as long as we ale elected by our
constituents to look after and study their
public interests, and as long as we, as
rat!onal men, cannot see The Justice or the
necessity of imposing an increasing and enor-
nous debt on posterity as we'll as the present
generation, so long are we in simple duty
bound to protest against such expenditure,
when we see 40 means of paying them really
1t seems not proper, not honest, to increase
liabilities, when we can see no prospects, or
hopes, of ever meeting them. If we are TO
exist at all then radical changes must he made;
II we are TO have hopes of paying our way
at ell. We mnst not only haul III, Int We must
increase our revenues. our agriculture md
man u~facture. This thing has beers going On
Tor years; for g great number IF years We have
been spending and voting moiIey which We
had not, but which must I've owed some
where and to somt body; yeaI after year we
put on upward Of two hundred Thousand doll
lars expenke on the little island, whose utmost
limits OF taxation do not suffice to meet the
demand; year after year we sink more aud
more into the mire. and we see no means
of being extricated; heed ess of al reminders.
the Administration continues putting on ex-
penses and increasing them too, although the
administration il unable to show where the
means are to be had to cover them. Now. as
regards the guarantee to the Factory, this
Island call not pay it to charge us every
year with 1t is to sink us still more in the
debt ;%henever a useful measuie is reIuired,
snytl ing that is adapted to promote the well
fare Of the Island, we are always ;old we
ara hankI mt We Dammit offO,I c{,h n tL;,r
but how, then, can we be asked to vote for
the Factory and for other imposes money
which We have notP The Colonial Councils
Members do not wish do not intend, when adyis-
Ing changes suited to bring about q more toll.
erRble state OF things, to recommend ANYTHING
like obstacles in the way Of a peaceful all.
ministration, but what We want is to see that
the expenses are kept within the reasonable
bounds of our income, and that thei efore we
be not forced to have ah organisation which
10 unnecessary, or arrangements that could
be had for less and yet be just as good We
would wish to see increased revenue by pros
perity in the Island we want to see the re-
sources of the Island properly develol ed by
means which are now expended largely with
out rendering adequate benefit. 1t is a re-
markable feature that the Colonial Council
hare is always working against increased ex-
penditure, but the Administration is always
in favor of expenses and of increased expenses
on the Colony and although we are taxed to
the muzxle, yet there can not be gained sufi-
Gent to meet the Adninistratio requirements
and we use money not our own to meet the
excess. We go on ct that rate regardless of
this fact, that everywhere throughout the
world constant improvements arc being made
in agriculture and manufacture: we do not,
and can not, follow elsewhere large amounts
Are ever being expended for improved machi-
merry, for manures and the like; we cannot fol.
low and yet to stand still is to recede;
We cannot compete, and We are outdistanced.
Still, taxation i rather OIL the increase in.
stead ofths decline in this island, end no one
can find the means for requisite improve
ments. And then again we run this risk, that
it We continue at that rate, the people. of Den
mark will get their eyes open and become
alive to the fact thar tax payers money there
10 being used fol the Colony needlessly and
iruitlsssly : and the time will come when we
shall be called on to pay all that we eve, and
when, therefore. we shall be called on for
more taxation but increased taxation means
con6scation. Now then is il reasonable 70 ex-
psct that we shall so on passing budgets of
this kind aud of this content? Certainly,
VIC have q right to have things as nice and as
good "a we can provided we can pay fer them: