THE ADVERTISER HONEST.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2017, 22 June 1875, Page 2

THE ADVERTISER HONEST.

(To tho Editor of the Evening Stab.) A fault to nature, ] To reason most aosurd. ' Fee fifo fum! the 'Tiser smells, sir,—not " the blood of an Englishman," like f'e horrible giant who frightened us out of our wits in our infant time, not subject matter for the vigilance of the Public Health I Officer—the Advertiser smells an occasion for doing a little of tho meanness inwhich ,that" -strangly-conducted journal delights under the cover of virtue! The' Advertiser has gone, goes, and is going to go for tho Puketui lease, which it says, ought to be,worked-with the full complement of men. If everyone held as high an opinion of the Advertiser as the Ad-_ vertiser holds of itself their " going for " the lease in question would be considered as a highly wise and just proceeding, in which that paper was doing that which it never does do, namely, look after the interests of the district in which it is' circulated, and the welfare of the people by whom it is supported ; but as everybodycannot be expected to view the 'Tiser from its own stand-point, I beg leave, to hazard the opinion that many consider its action the result of an inherent meanness, rancourj and selfishness. As a person* who never has had, or is likely to have, an interest in anything—be it. a .Tairua lease or a snare in .the'- City ' of York—what I say must be taken as strictly impartial. Imprimis, I wish to remark that the 'Tiser had no share in the original prospectors' claim of thirty acres, and ifc has become more than a whisper that the proprietory of that dolorous organ have a pretty large "share with the gentlemen who insinuated themselves into part proprietorship.' of the thirty acres ; therefore did the Advertiser uphold the insinuating gentlemen aforesaid, who have been' termed . jumpers. Had its interest been identical with IN eves, the Advertiser would have felt itself astonished at the enormity of the jumpers' designs. ' Such is the liberal spirit which characterises that paper. Now, with regard to the Puketui, in which none of the jumping crowd have the ghost of a show, the Advertiser haying erected itself on what it,! would like people to believe is an elevated plateau of morality and justice, points to that lease, and admonishes the Inspector to "do fc's duty." His duty is to impose upon the shareholders the expenditure of the money, which, when, spent,. would be waste, But that is precisely the object of the paper, whose proprietors say unto themselves, " What we can t have, you shan't." Not contented with the fruit of their charitable labor in help-! ing to' relieve Neves of a part of his burden of gold-bearing ground, they are doubtless projecting another raid on behalf of themselves and-their kin. All I have to observe to that journal is " good on you for your charity." As Monsieur Blandois would observe, so might the Tiser say of itself, " charity is a- part of" my character, and to help the needy is my delight;" and if aH Taccounts be true, there were some among those helped by the Tiser who were excessively needy, who in fact were reduced ■ very much on account of their peculiar walk in life having become somewhat barren, of late, and further, on account of their -known repugnance to anything in the shape of honest labor, or what a mad world will sometimes describe as honest labor. This much, for " the A dvertiser honest." It never sides with the strong; ifc never acts from interested motives; and above all, the beautiful • distinction it makes in describing what is, and what is not a piece of ground, liable to the concessions of the Act, should make it-famous for its wisdom and penetration—no less than for its 'evident superiority of practical information, gathered with as much expense probablyj as that incurred in despatching the flyinjf reporter over half New Zealand in search of Stowart, the.pipeclay man. Reefer. .