CORRESPONDENCE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 480, 14 June 1890, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Under no circumstances is the Editor responsible for matter contained in correspondence. J[To The Editor.} Sir, — When a man says lie knows nothing about politics it is safe to conclude lie knows little of anything else, as every intelligent man must take an interest in the advancement of his country, which means his own welfare, so every man should register and wellweigh the merits of the man be sends to represent him in Parliament. Mr Allen, judging from his address from the newspapers, seems to be a man of principle experience and observation, and able to grasp the subject; contrasting very favourably with some of our small callibre guns who have fired away lately. Take Mr Lawry’s speech as a fair specimen, and give it in short. “ The patient is suffering from D T, no more F B, perfect rest." Now anybody knows this, but a doctor is expected to prescribe something to set the patient on his legs, eveu a hair of the dog that bit him, a small dose of the P.B. But the doctor says he must live on what he can make out of the unimproved lands. No more P. 8.! The fat lands which have been improved and ‘incremented ’must not be touched, only the lean half-improved land must be bled, tbe unimproved land not worth improving is to be especially bled and made to pay our taxes, which will help small and great farmers to improve their farms and to sell the unimproved lands i in the hands of the Government. The j taxes must all be paid by yr.o class of the j comaiUiiity who produce the .necessaries i of life in order that another class msy • enjoy their silks and satins, wines, _ whiskies, and tobacco., and ail their j

luxuries free. This all sou ids very much like mockery, and yet it is approved, by the hearers, it is said, who must he equally ignorant of true policy, or they must be like the heaters of a Scotch minister, who overtook one on his return from the kirk, “Goo 1 day John”, suid tho ministHr, **what u blessed day of rest the Sabbath is.” Hleed is’t, Haiti John, 1 just gang into the kirk and get my lege up on the form, and I think on nothing so it must he with men who are satisfied with such mental pabulum.—l am, etc., Elector. Mangapni, June 2nd,1890. . . .