MR JOLLY IN REPLY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1290, 26 June 1884, Page 3

MR JOLLY IN REPLY.

To the Editor. ■ Sis,—ld last Tuesday’s Issue of your paper you style me as the bush politician. „ lour memory may have failed you. President Garfield was albush politician, and « some of oar leading men bare sprung up from ihe ranks of the working class. The late leader of the Opposition was a sailor. Ton say if you took the trouble' to report nonsense yon are afraid the circulation of the Guardian would Ufe seriously affected. Is 1870 the public debt was L 7,800,000, -* in 1883 L 30,300,000, or in thirteen yean an increase of L 22,616,000. The mortgage . upon private property was JL30,000,000. We are now paying L4.000.f100 a year for, interest, jor in thirteen years paid L26,0L0,000. Allowing the next thirteen years to increase at the same rate/we will have to pay £52,000,000 for Interest. Had a Government Bank ’ been started thirteen years ago, with borrowing of two millions of money for a start, issuing out paper money and buying the gold frqm.vtfae diggers,, the settlers having the land upon easy terms of payments, we should at the present day . have the settlers with the. land belonging to them, the debt of the colony Esid off, and ourselves at the present day 1 a prosperous state, whereas the land System of this country has placed us. in a far worse stats than they are. in Ireland It la never too late to mend. Lei ns start a National Bank, and issue ont paper money, and work upon own means. In 13 yean from now _we will have a large •amount of the public debt paid off, and the taxes far easier the whole time than 'what they are at present. Ton give the working men advice to place their interest in the hands of others. What have the' othen done for ue 1 Allowing but of the 40,000 working men one third to be single men or 13,000 put of that number, bow many of ns have to seek boardingbooses and hotels for homes, and the greater part of the year without employ mentl The producer, with the fruits of bis labor going into another man’s pocket intead of his own, the country in debt, business ; at a stand still, no money in circulation, the revenue falling and the ppuntry $t e standstill, the people at their wita'end, and don’t know what to do. This, . Mr Editor, you term nonsense, and would •top the circulation of yon* paper if you . printed it. The*way you put the cloak npob the education question is no credit to you. My remarks upon the press that ' I gave credit where credit is due, the Ashburton MaM being the only papei that has reported me; and every newspaper tjboold h? compelled to report in the distript all'political meetings or stoj the issue of the paper, and the reporter) to have from one to ten years in gaol foi falsa reports .and for keeping the poop!) in ignorance. If this were carried out not the least doubt but what the staff o Tub Ashburton Guardian would taki O seat—not in the General Assembly, bt» in the Blapk Marie, to aopommodab them with p saloon passage in the atom frigate.—l am, eto., Sajiuw. Charms Jolly, ’ I’he Bush Politician. Juoe2sti>.- • fWe trust that Mir Jolly, who is evidently v touchy on the point, will p»doi I oiw Imvißc smended j ha ‘somowha eccentric orthography.—Ed. G.j :lji Si, ’l ,j ‘ JffUl!! 11 Wl. T. 1.. Jgißßa& ■- •