PROTECTION.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2234, 5 July 1870, Page 2

PROTECTION.

To the Editor of the Evening Star

Sir, —Allow me through the medium of your paper to suggest to that portion of the community, who will lie the greatest sufferers by the iniquitous propositions of Mr V ogel and others who have had any hand in bringing forward such an infamom scheme for oppressing the already overtaxed and suffering masses, that if they have any regard for their own interest, or for the advancement of the Colony, they do convene a public meeting or meetings, with as little delay as possible (for in this case delay would be ruin; that the proceedings of such meetings l)e embodied into a protest (not a memorial) that the said protest be brought before the General Assembly, with a v4ew of showing he qf stuoh a measure as this infernal protective scheme (it is quite evident it is for the protection of the rich and for the oppression of the poor) that it will not be tolerated by the masses. J/.-t them see by your actions that you are not insensible of your owu and your country’s interests ; rouse yourselves from the state'of apathy into which you appear to, have fallen; press forward manfully in the great and noble fight for. liberty ; take from this would*, be oppressor the power he has dared to abuse, and let him elf and others of his class retire to some secluded gully, and there hide their insignificant heads from the. gaze qf free honest men. Let them see. yoi\ are not to hj? mftdp the slaves of oppressors whqse capacious mow is never satiated; prove yourselves to he worthy champions ofliberty, and never lot it be recorded you that you sat silently and] calmly down and allowed the oppressor to tread upon you.

Fellow colonists, I trust that not only for your own sake, but for the sake of those who may come after you, you will bestir yourselves in this matter; it is your duty, a duty'yon owe to society If you neglect that duty the consequence will be ruin and poverty. Nip this act of oppresiou in the bud, and by so doing you. will effectually guurd against any wanton act of oppression in the future. Apologising <o you, sir, for intruding ao much upon your space, 1 am, &0., Frkp, Tua.uk kou Ever. Clark street, Dunedin, July 4th, 1370.