CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 211, 4 September 1880, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

To tiik Editob oi? thb "Evening Mail.' ! Sir— l belong, for my sins, to the great j family of '«the Reduced." I am.ono of j those to whom a Legislature— composed of a body of men presumably «o far rcputabU that,- ©yen .his worst enemy would hardly suspect the meanest of the band of filching his pocket handkerchief— haa said, ia ? ofCo«t., "PrieiiaVyouare not overpaid for yourwork, i which, on the whole, is not badly done, but you must really make up your mind to take less in future. For your pound's , worth of work I shall, henceforth, giTpypu.eighfcsin shillings, otherwise my constituents ,, (.many ofiWjhom,! admit, earn far more, and do far less, than you do) will have to forego some luxuries to which, they have been ,., for some timauccustomed; and the want of .which may "probably embitter them against: us, their represeritativea. It must be obvious to- you that if' 'you' insiat upon being paid a full equivalent for' your services others must suffer. The down-trodden working man; for instance, cannot have his free breakfaßfc table, or the free education of his offspring. Somebody, or something, you will admit, must go to : the wall. : And why not the weakest? What can you do but protest? And we" all know the fate of him who can do nothing but protest. You are getting old, you say, have worn yourself out in the public service, and are now incapable of taking other employment! Precisely so. Arid that is why we have picked ci you out as the appropriate victim of special taxation." Thus say pur honorable Legislators. I will try to show, in a second., letter/that it is possible for, the scores of mulcted ones in Nelson to shift to the Bhbulaers of others spmo portion at least of the burden bo unfairly laid on them. lam, &c., ■■•"■'•• •-. , . ' A.'SusT'ißßtf.-- :