PRINCIPLE VERSUS POCKET.
TO THE EDITOR OS THE NEW ZEALAND.TIMES. Sib, It is generally supposed on all occasions when elections take place that, people act and vote on principle, and everything is done conscientiously, regardless of time and expense; but when ex-editors of newspapers place themselves on the level of cads and loafers, who are always to be found hawking their services on such occasions, aud send in a miserable claim for a, few shillings for personal expenses incurred at the late election, it is plainly evident that they have studied their pocket and not principle, and the man on whom they could sponge. Now, sir, I always took editors of newspapers to be gentlemen, whose salaries placed them above such meanness, hut that such a thing did occur can be readily proved, aud I challenge contradiction. —I am, &c„ An,Elector.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5279, 25 February 1878, Page 3
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141PRINCIPLE VERSUS POCKET. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5279, 25 February 1878, Page 3
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