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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 21 October 5, 1938

What did the "herald" Say in 93?

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What did the "herald" Say in 93?

The following extracts are all taken from leading articles in the "Herald." and the dates are attached. Listen! This is what it said:—

  • 23rd Nov., 1893.—"First, we must remember that the great expansion of our exports has not enabled us to settle and dispose of our difficulties once for all. It has extricated us from all Immediate financial peril, but we have still that fearful debt of somewhere about forty millions hanging over us. Which has lately been milled to by various methods of sly borrowing

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  • 27th Nov., 1893.—"Our chief anxiety is for the sake of the colony, to prevent rush mid wasteful legislation, to enable the colony to make a complete recovery so that there may be no fear of being compelled to borrow, so that the burden of taxation, which is exceedingly heavy, may be lightened, and that the colony may make steady progress."

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  • 25th Nov., 1893.—"To the elector who has no love of State Socialism, and no taste for incessant experiments with the social machinery. It is ... a simple matter to place the guidance of the ship of State in the hands of Mr. Rolleston." (Read Mr. Hamilton.)

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  • 23th Nov., 1893.—Mr. Seddon's platform provided "that there should be a State bank of issue . . . that State farms should be established all over the country."

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  • 24th Nov., 1893.—"We hear from the South, on very good authority, the Ministers are by no means so sanguine as they were that the general election will give them a triumphant majority. . . ."

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The painful uncertainty, the uneasiness and anxiety, of the Government (If they ever existed) must have been dissipated easily enough by the result of that Election, which was held on 28th November, 1893. Here are the figures:—
Government 49
Opposition 16
Independents 5

That Election marked the beginning of a period of nearly twenty years—the greatest period in our history when unexampled prosperity and contentment ruled, and the eyes of philosophers and sociologists throughout the world were turned on New Zealand. The "rash and dangerous experiments" of the Seddon Government excited the envy and admiration of other countries. People came to New Zealand from all over the world to settle down in the now land of promise.

(Taken from "Who Said Red Ruin?"—An Examination of Newspaper Methods.)

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