The Weak and the Strong
WOKKER,
I Sir, — Please allow me to endorse Mr. A. Lowe's remarks about tlie financial- " ly strong being free to prey upon the financially weak. This is not a recent development; it kas been evident since the beginning of time. I will never forget a description told by the oid men in the North of Scotland of the sqmre or laird drowning the pedlar jnet to allow his friends the pleasure oi seeing a man drowning. In these good old days, the laird was lord of all he owned and made his own laws, and, of course his word was law. The stoiy .went on to deseribe how the old man 'a donkey wandered around the countryside until the saddle grew into ita back. The human heart has not changed since, as the relief workers of this district know fnll well. the most recent touch of it being the doubling of the price of their bit of firewood at a season of the year, too, when it is most keenly felt. — -Yours, etc.,
Hastings, Sept. 6, 1937.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 199, 8 September 1937, Page 3
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