SIR MERCURY FLASHMAN'S MANIFESTO.
To the Electors, &c., &c. Gentlemen— Your late representatives are all dead, but won't lie down. I'm all alive and up to the mark, as you'll see below. ' Tbis time I stand on the Liberal plank Talk of Household Suffrage! Infant Suffrage' and every mother to have the proxy!— That's my horse, and I'll back him against the field' What's the Liberal card now? Representatives to vote their own salaries? I play higher than that! Every workman to hav» £1 a day, and do no work after breakfast! You can't heat that throw for the Liberal thing! But I've a dark horse yet to trot out' Borrow three millions for immigration' That's the favorite, is it? What, bring out Britishers as poor as yourselves to compete with you?
That's not my lay! Borrow twenty millions and lay it out in Chinese; every New Zealand workman to have two — one to work for him, the other to wait on him! Is that plank broad enough? What's uiy next tip? Everybody to be Governor by rotation, except the privileged classes, and they to be apprenticed to some good trade! It' these don't <]o, I must be hopping on the wrong leg, and shall turn Couservative at once-.— l am, Gentlemen, il. F. Waimea South, August 21.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 200, 22 August 1879, Page 2
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