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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 77

A Continuous Ministry has Degenerated

A Continuous Ministry has Degenerated.

I propose to give reasons why the Continuous Ministry presided over by the right Hon. R. J. Seddon should be superceded by a new Administration. The United States of America, recognising the inevitable tendency towards despotism and abuse which always accompanies an unchecked and lengthy period of power, has decreed that no man can occupy the Presidential chair for more than two consecutive terms. In New Zealand, by one means or another—by artifice and a method of Cabinet construction designed to serve his personal ambition rather than to secure the best administrative talent for the public service—the Premier has dominated the Cabinet for over twelve years.

In support of the contention that every interest of the colony would be benefitted by a revolutionary change in the Cabinet, we ask your consideration of the following arguments and facts, all of which tend to display the real personal character of the Premier and his colleagues forming the present Ministry.:—

It is the duty of every elector to test the merits of this controversy, and to so act that high ideals shall become the chief concern of those entrusted with the administration of the colony's affairs.

We are not worse at once—the course of evil
Begins so slowly, and from each slight source,
An infant's hand might stem its breach with, clay;
But let the stream get deeper, and Philosophy—
Ay, and Religion too—shall strive in vain
To turn the headlong torrent.

Scott.