BANKS AND COCKATOOS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1546, 29 January 1887, Page 3

BANKS AND COCKATOOS.

‘ ' TO THE EDITOR. Si*,—Action, speaks louder than words, and I will cali the attention of the squatter, the tradespeople,thefarrner, and the laborer to a few things to think about. Pint, tire: have plenty of everything that man standi in need of, and to spare ; yet how bard it: is for man to live; bow miserable be is in a land of plenty! He has gone down lover: than the brute creation. Look at the beasts in yonder field with a plenty ; bow contented they are'; how they.? enjoy, themselves—but man I how miserable he is in the land which bis Maker has provided for him. Man, look 4o : thyself, ’and do as you are commandsd : Love thy neighbor ;do as you wishto'bedoneunto.He is blind ; he will not do it. Look at that poor squatter, what a mesa he is in 1 What a trouble,! ! IlSf lias brought it on himself. What.ls.thy.r^• of this I Well, I had a little hid' v' of my; pwh, once j a nice ■tiro, sol thought I would take a little farm and liye well on it. I bad to borrow frpm the bank. I went on for a time all right, but I had to watch the bank s fee, and keep that up all right, if not they would ponnee on me and take my all; for bank interest soon runs up. But. at last things came down—everything got ■o cheap excepting the banks, and they held ‘price up in j spite of anyone, and at last they took my all from me, and Ihave got to 3 this. l - i da not care what becohies 'of me,' or what I do. I am called a lacy loafer und drunkard. Whoso fault is. it my getting into this way I will fell. It is the fault of the squatter for helping, these, gentlemen to make laws to let these banks crush us poor cockatoos. > Let us all be of one mind, and that we may be able to send to the House men that will put up banks, ip as to ssve us ppor cockatoos, from rnin, And squatters too. We can do it if we like to unite:and too happy. We can T help the squatter, the cockatoe, and the tradesman. All of uo will! soon: feel the - good of it by'sending men to the House, that will make us good laws, so tbat we can- live, by our labor, and keep these banka from, crushing us poor- cockatoos.— I aih : i :? felc.V“’ 3 ’ I Waihi Bush.