MR WREATHALL’S LETTERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2320, 18 February 1892, Page 3

MR WREATHALL’S LETTERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —You must withdraw the threat that you wont publish any more of Mr Wreathall’s letters. How could you conceive the idea of denying your subscribers the pleasure and amusement of reading them ? And besides, if Mr Wreathall were not allowed to blow off gas he would burst and blow up the Kakahu bush. If you could encourage him a bit and get him to blow off all his superabundant supply of gas he might drop down to the level of common sense, and be able to discern that the wrong (if it be a wrong) that he tries to saddle the Minister of Lands with is attributable to the bad laws that his (Mr Wreathali’s) friends the Tories have made. Ministers must keep within the law the same as other men, and wrong cannot consist in administering the law as it is. Laws that are too bad for putting in force should be blotted out. Another supporter of Her Majesty’s Opposition said to me a short time ago that such laws were necessary when the Government might want them. No Government that aims at holding the balance even could ever conceive such an idea. When can laws that are only fit to remain a dead letter be wanted 1 When administrators wish to lash an opponent. If Mr Wreathall catches the Hon. Mr McKenzie using the law for any such purpose he will have a case against him, but to abuse a man in his position for administering the law as it is only shows the crass ignorant partisan. With one man one vote the people are the real law-makers and governors. If we could get rid of ignorant partisanship, and enthrone reason as our umpire, we would soon get a Legislature that would make the laws we want, and a Government that would not dare to abuse power. But no Government can be better than the people they have to govern. Our selfish ignorance is the cause of all the ills we have to endure. —I am, etc., Liberal.