IN OPPOSITION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1529, 10 August 1905, Page 3

IN OPPOSITION.

'(To the Editor Gisborne Times, Sir, —It is an old and acknowledged saying that opposition is useful to put down imposition. Does Mr Lissant Clayton hope to be returned to Parliament as member for our district? Such a bope looms largely like an imposition on tbe very few purblind fo!k who may be met with in our thriving and prosperous com munity. Aro we sickly waary of our past and present prosperity? Yes, we undoubtedly would seem to be when, as Mr Clayton says, he has been “honored by tho request of a large number of electors to offer himself as a candidate for the House of Representatives.’’ It is a sad reminder—this of Mr Clayton’s —that of not knowing on which side our bread is buttered ; for comparison—and such helps ore not always odious—tbe old Hebrew Dation undor the Kings was torn asunder by fierce passions, joalouaies and rivalries, until tbe utter destruction of the whole nation was complete. So was ill with old Greece, as Thucydides has painted a 3 the result of the Peloponnesian war. Britain is on a similar errand to day—that of opposition to put down imposition. And of course New Zealand can be no exception, when we have a genius within call such as Mr ClaytOD, an overwhelmiogly nice follow, of vast experience, undoubted ability, of

statesmanlike attainment 1 !, but lost here in poor befogged Gisborne. We like a fighting man, and in Mr Clayton we’ve got one. Look at his scholarly arranged address to we electors of ill-treated Waiapu, from his“a” to his “f” proves that ho has born talent. Jle declines to pledge himself to any party so he tells us —what, not oven to hia large number of electors, who would take him out of tho Gisborne ash-pit. Yours, etc., W —.