IS SIR GEORGE GREY A DANGEROS MAN TO THE COUNTRY?

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1406, 17 August 1878, Page 3

IS SIR GEORGE GREY A DANGEROS MAN TO THE COUNTRY?

To the Editor of the Globe.

Sir, —Your leader on Thursday and the spech of Sir George Grey in your issue of Wednesday causes thoughts to cross my mind of the many articles and letters that I have read where the writais tmd to prove that Sir George On y was a dangerous man. What will they think of his last utterance? I believe it will be necessary for public speakers to supply brains to soTie of their audience before they can be properly understood, and Ministers will have to put the taxes on something that no on» uses, and I know some men who would oppose that. Sir. what tax could be enforced that Opposition critics would not try to bring discredit on its authors 1 None. <ne time you tried to make out that the well-o-do class would leave the country through the Democrats in power making it an unfit place for them to reside in. Now you say they are r.-bbing the poor and giving to the rich. My humble opinion i 3 this, that they are that moderate that no class have cause to complain—the poor because thy had not the *ense to combine for their own protection, and the rich because they do not yet p»y their fair share to the revenue of the country. I was somewhat amused by a letter in one of the dailies from one of our Christchurch manufacturers, complaining of the import tax on the very articles he is trying to produce Another great logician was laboring in another letter to prove that the selling of land cheap prevented the worVing man from getting any. Let the working men keep that in mind when they go to buy, and place a few dummies m the market to run up the price for them, that will demonstrate the evidences given by the ghos*; of Jo*h Billings. Now, sr, what about the cry of robbing a poor man of his beer. I only hope that brothers and parents will follow suit to tho Oovernment lead-off by raiding the quality a few degree s, then perhaps we shall feel lighter in the head, as well as the pocket, after payirg them a visit. Sir, lam inclined to think if the present Ministry continue as they have commenced, it will bo along time before there will he any political work given to that gentleman that prayed for political rest this time last yevr. Did he expect his prayer would so soon be answered ? I hope he enjoys the rest he is getting, and may he learn that suck prayers are the only ones he is likely to get answered if he goes back to office, and he was the only man that wanted rest. Sir, one word more, and I am done. I can understand an opponent, but I don't like milk-and-wate* friend 3. The " Star " some few weeks ago had an article proving the heading of this letter in the affirmative. Perhaps it was the remembrance of that article caused them to withhold from their readers the h >n. gentleman's last speech. I am. &c, J. WALKHR,