THE ELECTIONS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4842, 16 July 1884, Page 2

THE ELECTIONS.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.)

Sib, —Some are born fools, some make fools of themselves, and some try to make fools of others ; to the latter class belongs the speaker at Monday night's meeting. The position taken up by Mr Speight is not new ; the professional politicians at all times adopts precisely the same tactics— pouring into the ears of their audience the usual amount of sympathy with the working man, and impressing forcibly' upon their minds that they are down- I trodden; that the lands, the birthright of their children, are being filched from I them—all the powers that be being corrupt, this being repeated again and again, until it is partly believed in ; that the only saviour of the people's rights is the speaker; and that the country is going fast to ruin, if he is not elected. This is the same story taken up and echoed by every carpet bagger and professional politician who can find an audience sufficiently pliable to take hia statements without examination. I ask the electorsto look below the surface and examine the inducement that exists for this apparent disinterested actioD.* Has the speaker exercised the amount of philanthropise action privately that these statements would lead one to expect? or has self b?en the god, worshipped unseen, while the wrongs of the people has been the banner to unfurl in public P; The tree is known by its fruit. Mr Speight has v new rendering for this text (vide his remarks on the present Native Minister) —" He j likes his policy, but'dislikes the man." How is this ? Can it be possible that My Bryce has already measured Mr Speight, and that' Mr Spsight knovys this, &nd hence his bitterness ? L.ength, breadth, and depth, all comprised in the one word —" talk/," Better by far for the candidate to hide his feelings, or cast them to the winds along with what little principle he ever 1 had, so that he may still further pander to the popular element \ or uphold a Government th^t has some of the best administrative ability the.colony has ever , had, who, a few months or even weeks ago, were everything that was bad according to him; They were nothing if they were not corrupt; no name, no epithet, was too strong to apply to such men as Atkinson, Bryce, and others ; ond now, behold the change! Now, weye the working men of the Thames born for this P Is this the kind of man we are asked to help into powe? as one.of ourselves, as risen from our ranks P I say no ; I will be no party to assist such a man into power.—l am, ■&c. f ' A WoBRiNa Man.