Kangaroo Jack's address to the Vorking men at the Royal Hotel.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, 6 August 1853, Page 3

Kangaroo Jack's address to the Vorking men at the Royal Hotel.

! Fellow Vorkmen, — I calls you by ibis hendearing hepithet, cause vy, although I's now i set up for a gentlemen, hi can assure you, my hearty fellows, its a mere baccident that hi aint a snob ; and hafter all, vy there's no sich difference between us, for I hoften as has dirty a job as any on you, and although hi mixes vith the haristocracy, 1 don't like urn a bit, for they're halways a sneering at me, vitch is, of course, insultin to my feelings, as the ooestest man boutside of Newgate. But to come to the pint, gentlemen, (no, quarts ! from the audience) I vant to talk to you about this ere pledge vitch they vants us to give : Gentlemen, the honly pledge hi understands is a glass of wine hor one hi has helped many a good woman to give her husband, a pledge of afection ; and this is the strongest bond between me and you, my fellow electors, Vould you fetter the man who is to fight your battles ? Vould you have me a mere tool ? No, Gentlemen, hi am the Vorkman, you are the tools, and sharp ones I'll make of you, but don't cut your hold acquaintances till they finishes their job, and gets their rages, for no man can stand glasses round this ere vay without some benefit j hout on it. Don't believe anythrnk the Nominees say. Hi vould'nt give a fig for hall their political science; they are hall rogues, fools, or liars, and if they comes to hax a pledge of me I'll teach urn a lesson in politics vith my hosswip. My word ! rilletthera know that hi served in the Spanish Legion, yen the liberty of the subject was respected, and yen we shot urn like rabbits if they did not go to the right about. I'll bet you a wager they dosenl forget Don Corsett there, vere I beamed ! hall my onners, so I hope you'll put me in for ' your honorable representitive. To conclude, gentlemen, I hope you'll lush it well for the good of this ouse, in vitch hi has some interest, and let the tost be a new Constitution to our minds and bodies, I mean personally as well as the body politic, (shouts of applause.)