A FARMER'S VIEW OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1396, 23 March 1912, Page 6

A FARMER'S VIEW OF THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

Sir.-lnc farmers have nil along helped nproyo Hicir «- ae?s to „ fair rcinunerati.c sUfei;. We have never made our union poliUcal. The lie. about all farmers being supporters of 3tr. Masscv is nil vo , am o „iy a political Bng . tf c have \otcii nil- ways, as our minds directed us. One Inn- has sort of got our back* up iiml dial is two men deeded a« T,:ilini'rilr< broke tlic.r pledges, ami ue are beginnim; In sec Hint Labour unions tire incapable of sole-t;it S reliable candidates, so we -hail be. lorccd (o make our union political. \\e are the majority the world over. .\.j ens as Labour kept within rea-nnahlo bounds, we. as sympathisers ami helpers or Labour, voted anyhow. \ov facts here are chnnsinj; our views. \ J'arliament to lie mefu! to us anil (he population of >,'ow Zealand in tut be composed ni honest, patriutie members. As scon as we admit the oilier kind the people are robbed, the duties are raised, (he eo-t of living increases by leaps ami bounds, mill, even although our wages arc liHtor. we have trouble to keep ahead of it. ° We must put in honest members next election. The interests of all classes are the same. If the farmer has laws to suit him he lives and lets live. ]f (ho bind produces bountifully under a patriotic Administration, all pel. (heir share. Til" wolf worries ami destroys He has n good lime himseif, but (lie'sheep ilon'l. We, unfortunately, are the sheep. If imuiense sums arc borrowed, the population .flays the interest. Duties havo boen

raised, land tax lias increased, and now ft working man or former has to pay 6s. Od. inland for one pound of Havclcelc tobacco (the cost of which in America is Is. (111. per Mk); freight 475. per ton; and also uu agricultural tools and machinery there is a 3(1 per cent, duty—[ am, etc., A BACK-IiI.OCK KING COUNTRY PKINIiEH. , Oparau, March U.