CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 192, 14 August 1874, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

NOW'S TUB TIVIE AND NOW'S THE HOUR. To the Editor of the Evening Mail. Sia— The telegraph tells us that the Government means to stand or fall upon the abolition of the North Island Provinces question, and that the division is likely to prove a clo3e one Here, then, is an excellent opportunity for NeUon to assert herself. What is to prevent our sevtn members from banding themselves together, ani gciug to the Premier and saying -. " Ycu have had ifc all your own way with us hitherto, but now our time has come, and unless you laten to reason, and redeem your pledges to us. we will vote against jou." I fancy I hear some politician of the severely moral type, exclaiming, "• ( )h ! fie, would you have your repies.ntatives sell their votes in that way ?" Well, it does look a littte ugly, perhaps, but vhen we have to deal with an extraordinary ease, and are justified in resorting to extreme measures. Fair means h .ye failed to procure justice for Nelson, so let us try something else. W e have been jumpel upon and trodden down, but even a worm will turn, and surely we have as much spirit as a worm. Besides, if there is an objtction to the term " selling votes," let us change it, ai.d call it «' purchasing " our rights. Never mind t'le name, sj that, we get what we want and ought to have— l am, &c, Strike Home.