“ O YE HYPOCRITES.”

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43379, 29 September 1908, Page 3

“ O YE HYPOCRITES.”

To the Editor.

Sir, —I would like if you have the space in your paper for my letter, to draw the attention of all visitors, outsiders and lookers-on to the noble Avay in Avhich the people of Te Aroha have already in your paper written on that much contested question of No-license. We are shoAvn by one of your correspondents that it is a thing Avhich will commercially effect the whole town, therefore I feel sure all right-minded men and Avomen are bound to take an interest in Avhat will prove to be either a suecess or failure as the case may be. I notice these right - minded individuals submit to Government’s wrongful dismissal of the clerk from the Tourist Department, but what does that matter to them ? We hear the clerk did not receive Avages due to her, but the community do not suffer by her loss, then Avhy has there been this excitement about nothing ?

Those who are trying to make others good by doing away with the bars, who cry (Avhen convenient) “ What can we do to help our poor brothers and sisters?” evidently ignore the individual as being beneath their notice. From a commercial point of view the case of the lady clerk Avas worse than beneath their notice for has not the Government smiled on Te Aroha and made it a tourist resort and so made the tOAvn prosper ? and might not that same poAver strip profits from those Avho question Avhat it does as just or otherAvise ? therefore it behoves the community to uphold the hand which fills its pockets, even when it means, one or some of their members are to be trampled on for the Government’s pleasure. Shame on you ! Is a pint of beer more to you people than justice ? Has money so demeaned you that you are Avilling to gain it by trampling on one another ? Remember the children of Isreal worshipped the golden calf and their Dunishment.-—I am, etc., A Female Voter.