CORRESPONDENCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 11 May 1907, Page 4

CORRESPONDENCE.

HIE LAND 1111,1.. To the Mditov. Sir,—Can none of ihe.se gay freeholdits who are niiiitheiuising tlie Land I'ill lay a lance in rest for llr.'ir cause afier being told mi plainly that they (.ace not yet advanced a sensible argument to justify the strong language being used and that the cry is only the usual boohooing of electioneering tacticsV The Wanganni Herald's leader on Wellies-1 day was very outspoken, and "Lindl I'irates'' is not a pretty nam l .' t.i iic| called, but if my surmise is curreel.j that ihose seven mililons of Maori hind are the mainspring of the agitation, then is the inline well tic-erect. Your evening eonteinpor.iry deprecates the raking up of abuses which led the colony to send Mr Milsscy's friends from power sixteen years ago, but can the leopard change'his spots? Mr Massey mav be hikh'ly elated by his triumphal reception at Cheviot, and we can't blmie the electors much. The case see.ns to stand in this fashion: They each have a vote ami il is ilicir own to do jnnl as they plea-o witli it. The Im-gam oll'ered' is perfectly intelligible. (live me vour vote, and I will give you eiery eh nice to make your leasehold into freehold 1 : So far good, hut docs that leashold land belong to the Leader of the Opposition or his party to deal with? Did the (iovornnicnl buy thai I u,tl to travel round in the same old vicious circle? First ilio freehold, ihen nice old party only too happy to lend money on freehold for improvements, etc.; a had season or two; interest behind, nice old party gets insistent, raises interest, forecloses and in a few yea.-s that nice old party has a big estate to oiler the Government that it may again lie cut up. Cheviot men have done splendidly both for themselves and the colony, and should hardly turn round on 'the party who assisted them into , competence. It is not slated that Mr Massey fried to convert those cletr headed men in Rangiora who have just handled his lieutenants to cavalierly, though it lay in his route. Rangiora is an agricultural country town of the best type, and the sturdy independent burgesses there did not want a burgess from the North Island to tell them on which side their bread was buttered, nor to try to gammon them that their freeholds were in danger. Unless -ho Opposition can show a much heavier :n----dictuient than hitherto 1 hope New Plymouth will be true lo its colors 4jii Tuesday next and return the Government candidate.—i am, etc., A. CASUAL. To the Editor,

Sir.—As a follower of the political turf for a number of years i Send, ami trust that you will insert, the following straight, tip to those in want of a good thing:—The Parliamentary Handicap, 1 year and a distance, first horse to receive £3OO per annum, —Messrs Progress and Ability's d b colt, W. (4. Malone, 1; Mr Cheapinan's Small Pay, 2; Messrs Out of-Date ami Antiquity's gr>y mare, Dreamy Dockrill, 3. The above forecast will he found correct; it's a ''dead cert."—l am, etc., GIN SHING.

LIVING STATUARY. To the Editor. Sir,—Will you kindly allow mc space in your .columns to comment on your leader of "Strange Ideas."? Firstly, i consider the Bishop of London is more than justified in making a. crusade against the exhibition of "living statuary." Do one-third of the crowd vrno go to see this exhibition view it with the truo love"iof ait in their souls? Or do they go with sensual motives? 1 am inclined to think the latter. Then consider, would any man, worthy the name of man, care to see one dear to him earn a livelihood in this way? Is not all that is chaste and beautiful in woman—i.e., innocency and modestystripped from her when she exhibits her form, which all good women regard t.s sacred? With regard to fashion that certainly i s overdone in the present age, for what tailor-made gown can equal for grace and health the old Grecian Mowing robes? In wearing hats in church women only follow the dictates of the church, vide St. Paul 1., Cor. XI., •1-3. "What God made is concluded to be wrong by the Bishop of London." Mere again we differ, for Scripture proves it in Gen. 111., 21; "The Lord (iod made coats of skins and clothed them.'Adam and Eve being nude is no criterion. One might as well say if Eve had not eaten that apple we should never have been bothered with fashion, jjut as a certain vicar said in his sermon recently, 'Where the story of Adam and Eve be true, I care not"; only since those days we arc always when possible ''■ En grande tenue."—l am, etc.,

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