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METAPHYSICS AND BEER.

To' the ■ Editor tof the Akdrckt Mail.

Sir,—-Your: communication »slgned " Old Growl " prompts- a broad scope for _ipcussion, even though the[incoherent raving ,Qf,tlie ,writer suggests), ttyat he,,is either -trunk,' stiiriid;,, of ,temporarily f ma_, \as people usually are whb attempt to unravel the labyrinthine / mysteries., enunciated in. the Trdctacus Thebtogico Potiticus of the fossilized old Jew of Amsterdam. Yet we are a shrewd' and cleva / r)pe.6ple in our own ways, or at least we suppose we are. We impose a heavy tax oh the publican,) and call it a." license,'! ; "We protect his monopoly while we rave about free trade with alien-nations, and preach ftp, thei *vorld what We fib _c* p'lWieein* bur -own internal domestic relations. ,:; We,license; a w-called yjjre;and ipublicly compel rheJicenseV -for what reason?' ' " :■'■*'•'■ I freely ;confes^tliatil„m^rhat'some: of my f riehdß here/at/the antipodes t$ civilization are pleased to call a new chum, and not having imported; a hea;vy; purse, I am puzzled almost out of mywits at times to' _iakb;ends.meet arid to understand the ; ways, and; moves., in- this: conglomerate country. Mr " Growl" states tnat he does not mind 6d-fora glass of ? beer, but I-do ; it is an. abomination, i|ir!' .We can't afford it; it is simply placing us at'the'meAjyof that Heathen Chinee'whom ] wb detest--tea, cabbages, cheap :labor,«&c/ Fie I give me good- ale> the-beverage [that; made' old England famous, and give; jit naya-price which we can afford jto..pay,.' and why not Messrs Ballance, -Stou^. and the rest of the self-styled Libej-als who wished to impose a tas; on" the* national beverage. Liberal and-conservative it is now the: cry, the war cry -here of self-interest, and such bosh, too, in a : colony: of thirty summers., a What has been your' history— the history of your traditions, associations, and administration? Truly a history of peretual change, with laws, as yaried.and contrary as would meet every wind from every point of .the'compass. Give me tbe tnorough paced conservative for choice—-, conservative of his privileges, and not of his own special personal interests like those professional liberal economical , gentlemen tdo'often prove to be, while the, borrowed money is being squandered to gratify their ambition. ■ Yours, &c.y, A NEW CHUM. i

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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 330, 16 September 1879, Page 2

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METAPHYSICS AND BEER. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 330, 16 September 1879, Page 2

METAPHYSICS AND BEER. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 330, 16 September 1879, Page 2

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