TAILORS, GENTLEMEN, AND DEMOCRACY.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1259, 20 March 1878, Page 2

TAILORS, GENTLEMEN, AND DEMOCRACY.

To the. Editor of the Globe. Sir, — In a brief manner and without oircomlooution, I would like the believers in the Great pro-0. to read the following extracts aad to ppndet oyer tbem eeriowty.

appear to me to be—well—not exactly in .keeping with each other, and lead one to the that Sir Q-eorge has opinions to suit ajl BQrts of people and explanations equally ready upon all subjects. IlSir Q-eorge (at Oddfellows'Hall meeting)— 4" But speaking frankly to you, I have observed in the colony that there is a tendency to cry people down who have advanced themselves beyond their fellows, although it is actually done by their own merit." Sir Q-eorge (Woolsfcon meeting) speaking and referring to interruption at Oddfellows' Hall meeting—(A Voice :" He was only a tailor.") Sir Q-eorge, "Nay, he was a landed proprietor—a gentleman of position—but he could not bear to hear him, &o. [Cheers.] He (the gentleman and landowner, not a mere tailor) was "contented with his lot, and wished them to be also." [Cheers.] , , . Rather at variance, I think, Mr Editor; I f Yours, &c,

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