MR GLOVER AND HIS CRITICS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1940, 10 September 1888, Page 3

MR GLOVER AND HIS CRITICS.

TO THE BDITOB. Sib,— l have read tbe letters anent Mr Glover's addreiß whioh appeared m your Issne of Wednesday, and although he has hftd already a pretty considerable dressing down I feel; constrained to add a word or two of my own. I consider that Mppr Stewnd is entitled to every credit both for trying to reduoa expenditure and to do away with the frequent occasion of muoh 111 feeling. There Is no doubt In my mind that were the elections of Committees triennial a better class of men wonld offer themselves for the position. Ai of old, I expect the Major will perMtere until the measure Is placed on the Statute book,andl,forone,wlshhimsucceßß In his efforts. Touching extremists of the Glovei type It wonld almost seem that if they had not the unfortunate publican to plander they wonld be quite lost for a topio and possibly both their bread and their bntter would be gone. Speaking on the subject from some experience 1 think that publicans as a rnle will take their place as men up to the average In re aneotablllty and knowledge of mankind. Who Indeed h»ve so good an oppurtunity of getting to know men as those engaged In trade, particularly those engaged In this line; Bat after mature consideration I have come to the eonolnslon that rabid teetotal leoturers of the, Glover type get a oontlnoas pleasure excursion with all expenses paid, together wl'h a handsome ■alary by running down men who are pos ■Ibly their betten. Well might we almost njr of them aa Barns said of the Lairds who were xnnnlng down excisemen to his hearing. Yt men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering, 'Gainst poor exolsemen ; give the cause a heating. What are your landlords' rent rolls ?— taxing ledgers, What "Premiers," even " monarohs ?— " mighty gtugers, Kay, what your priests', those seeming godly wise men, What are tbey> pray, bat spiritual exoliemen 1 I am, eta, Asti-Fahatio.