LIVE AND LET LIVE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2493, 2 January 1877, Page 2

LIVE AND LET LIVE.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) ;

Sic, — Would you » through ,your " columns allow me to suggest to chemists of the Thames the propriety of at once commencing to sell ten 'and tobacco at lower prices than those usually, sold at by grocers, say tea usually sold at Is might be sold at 2s 6d by chemists. ,1 think, sir, that if the above suggestion was acted /upon grocers would inpit likely learn to stick to their own ljne?of business and leave the chemists to mind theirs.—l am, &c, „. ' :., L, OUTSIDJtB. '; Thames, January Ist,. 1877. ,- h „-*

AN ANONYMOUS -WAITER" ON „* k-f£SINGS IN. GENERAL: * s "; - ost&9 tKe'Editof of the Eveaiii^Star.),. - -Mr Reddish isjiot very complimentary to, our Mayor, Mr* Macdonald,when he states that he looks upon anony> mous writers as much, as ho looks upon A thief, however much that may be • (see your issue of the 28th) for I fancy it war Mr Macdonald who admitted some time since having written a leading article in the Advertiser, besides, there's not a paper - published with the signatures; and few if any know the writers. I might with as good reason expect to see the signatures to, every thing published, as Mr Macdonald my name to my letters; besides Mr Macdonald led me to understand that he knew some of the writers; if he did, and knows the writer of this, it cannot be an anonymous letter to him. Evidently Mr Keddish wants the poorer classes to believe he is writing in their interest. t He begins his letter by stating the destitution that has been and is still on the Thames. Yet when men come forward and offer to do their best to remedy this state of things he says/ oh, no! I won't have it! I will only vote for those men who bare been ruling us all along, and brought this to pass; and will keep them in office in spite of everything ! Sir George Grey has quite

enough to contend with, Having all the monied and landed interest against him, without laboring men trying to hoodwink each other, and since the world began men who have written and tried to | ameliorate the condition of the poorer classes have always been derided, or if any. is to blame for Sir George Grey* want of success it is partly the poorer classei having no mind of their own. but being ', led like shuttlecocks, and the Government who have the power to grant Sir George Grey's request refusing them. If we are out of work is it Sir George Grej's fault or the Government who have the power to give or withhold ? Mr Reddish evidently has.got a< bee in his head. If the people get any better Government than the present it would be with the consent of the present holders. Why, «ir, the present county scheme, yclept Local J Self-Government, is the will of* the,.Government against the interests of the mass; for it stands to reason if any law is passed that will throw the preponderance of power in the hands of a few it can't be self-

government. There must be a lot of m«n who have no say in the matter. Numbering the balloting papers ia a device, and a good one to keep the preponderance of power ia the hands of a few. The public works are stopped till the Counties Act; is passed, so that the people shall be glad to take anything the : Government choose to give them ; but the Government took good care to vote themselves a salary before the Counties Act came into operation ; .they could find funds for themselves, but none for us. A great fuss was made that Provincialism was. too antiquated as a reason for. its being done away with; it had done its work. That argument rather astonished me, for since then I tee one of the principal reasons that is given for upholding a society (misnamed) the • Freemasons, is its antiquity, and seeing that a good few have been, and still are, in the administration, and the wonderful amount of" good they .have done to generations according to their account, it ii extraordinary, there is so. muchproppr^ty, where there are so many of these antiqui- - ties ruling in our A ssembly.—l am, &§., Caustic. 20th December.