MR. CUTHBERT AGAIN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 78, 14 November 1911, Page 7

MR. CUTHBERT AGAIN.

(To the Editor “Stratford Post.”) Sir, —In your issue of November Bth J. Smith has something to say and I suppose he calls it a reply to my letter. When Sir George Grey was in power he initiated a land policy. J. Smith helped himself to as much as lie could get and when he was nicely made up turned Tory. J. Smith says something about my inaccuracies. It is not always wise to speak the truth if the Hon. Thos. Mackenzie's reply to Mr Massey’s Eltham speech is anything to go by. As for the rest of the Tetter, it seems to lie a conglomeration of seething Tory cesspools covered up by a Liberal white muslin sheet. There is one thing that beats me—why settlers who are heavily mortgaged, working on .overdrafts, paying big rents, should vote for the present Opposition. Once that Party is in power and repeals the Advances to Settlors Act they will be able to handle those poor voluntary slaves and fix them >up at their" will. I don’t like Tories. They starved my parents; they robbed me of my birthright and education; and at the bal-lot-box I will pour vengeance upon them at every opportunity. Where a Government candidate dares to speak the truth concerning , the present Opposition or the management of the Bank of New Zealand when they (the Opposition) were in power, the following lines are something like the wrath these Reformers would gush upon the heads of the Government candidates: — “For them the hemlock shall distil, For them the axe be bared, ~ For them the gibbet shall be built, For them the stake prepared. Them shall the wrath and scorn of ,1, men, , , . ” Pprsuo with deadly aim: Malice, envy, spite and lies Shall decorate their name.” I am, etc., T. CUTHBERT. Pembroke Road, Nov. 13th, 1911.