Nuhou, Volume I, Number 20, 2 May 1873 — The Political Situation. [ARTICLE]

The Political Situation.

Wo lvave no politics, or public opinion in tluV country worth mentioniiig, A minister or a cabinct here do not represent anj party or policj, A' man that eouW not eoiumanel a vote may hold a portfolio; and we havc eome men in power who could not influence tlie 6uteiges of a eorporars squad of kanakas, Our Govcrnment is a mild autoeracy with a 6light legislative eheek, andrcgulated by fkvoritism, The whole maehinery pught to be directed by one man, there jsnodoubt about that. Does Stewart, or Tanderbilt, or even emaller businesß Kihgs, with their fifty million or more a year business, and their thousands of employees, want any cabinet to help them? There is not a chief clerk in any of our departments, who is not well qualified to carry on ali ttie'business of his office; and one efficient rainister of the King eould surpervise all the departmept of a Government that has only half a njillion a year to apend, But there are plenty of us that would accept a portfolio as Minister of Fore'ign Folderol, wear a grim craek neeklaee, and pretend to be doing something for five thousand a year, Perhape the word burcaucracy indicates our political eharactei\