AN ELECTION ADDRESS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1152, 8 April 1872, Page 4

AN ELECTION ADDRESS.

A supplement to the Wakatip Mail of 6th inst, contains an address to the electors from Mr Alfred Smith, a candidate for the seat rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr Haughton. After giving at some length his opinion on the questions of the day, he concludes as follows :— " Onward I Onward J i The dictates cf reason echo the voice — On, ou, on. Is there a barrier to progress, reason says— Clear the way !To be still is to be like a stagnant pool ;. and Father Time, too, beckons us forward, just like the sun. The desire of minds is unlimited. The index of truly a progressive people is indicated in the liberty of the whole bearing of its people. We cannot boast in what we have attained. We love liberty —why have wo not attained more 1 The eyes of 7000 years are upon us. Eybs speak ; what do they speak ? The eyes of the past are eyes of pity ; they pity us for being the victims of low, greedy oppressors. But oppressors have sweet tongues— very ugly eyes— eyes bleached with craft. Craft is their only stock-in-trade. Touch the pocket, the heart is near ; and these are the men who assume to be the embodiment of the beautiful. Fellow-men let reason cut the scum, the low, the vile. Let _reason clear the dark clouds of any species of despotism. How cruel for despotism to usurp the position of beautiful reason. Our reason Bays— Let the past be the past. Then let us sow to reason, to reap reason's fruits. To be over-ridden by any person is to loose our standing as men. Let us use the sword of reason, and despotism will quail beneath her feet. Our aim then, is the crown, the sap, the pinnacle of human greatness — the fullness of expression of reason — a Democracy. '