MR FRASER AT THE GAIETY THEATRE.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1727, 2 September 1879, Page 2

MR FRASER AT THE GAIETY THEATRE.

To the Editor of the Globe. g IK I am only a woman, and don’t know nothing of politics, only what my Harry talk me. Harry says Mr Fraser has been on the stump, and that that means spouting about politics. I don’t think Harry knows much about politics neither, because he says Mr Fraser would like, to see Mr Wearing returned to Parliament instead of Mr Bowen (God bless him, for it was him that got us the education for our children, pure and simple,) and if Mr Bowen is not sent up to the House again, Harry says the House will play up old gooseberry with the Bill for the education. Harry says ho read in the papers that the “ Tablet,” edited by Bishop Moran, at Dunedin, has got 300 Catholics to vote against Mr Bowen, because he got us the education, a- d the R. C. organ of Auckland advises Catholics to vote for Sir George Grey and his party, and the priest at Barbadoes street says to his hearer*, “ Don’t vote for anyone till I tell you, and Harry says none of them statements was been contradicted. Oh ! Mr Editor, I am so sorry that our respected clergyman, Mr Fraser, is rowing the boat he is, and X suppose he will get all his brother Orangemen to go with him. I don t know about Orangemen myself, but Harry says they should not vote as Mr Fraser wants them to no how. I am awful sorry that Mr Fraser has gone on the stump, instead of going to his pulpit; perhaps he is not so much at home in the pulpit. My po• r Harry is nearly breaking his heart at Mr Fraser’s stumping, and says that Mr Fraser should never have

been given to the Church. He says he would advise Mr Fraser to resign his priestly calling and take to the stump ; he says it would suit him better. But Harry is in a frightful passion just now, and I believe, Mr Editor, that my Harry is an Orangeman, or ho never would take on so. And while he was so angry, he said that clergymen of all sorts should let politics alone, and not tamper with the conscientious convictions of the people. He says it would be better for both Church and State. The last part of what Harry says here I don’t understand it. Harry says it is all right, so here goes. Harry says if the clergy was to stick to the pulpit, instead of the stump, he would be inclined not to look on those men as corpus sine pcctore. Yours, &c, MATKRPAMILLTAS