MR HOGG AND HIS PUDDING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3039, 9 November 1908, Page 4

MR HOGG AND HIS PUDDING.

(To the Editor)

Sir,— Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of ',_*'. troubles, And, by opposing, end them.

He who gave utterance to this irspiring statement must have hid Mr Hogg in his visionary eye of the future. For, truly, this is most applicable to Mr Hogg's present political platform. He offers the el?ctor3 of Masterton what he terms his political pudding, principally made up of political humb'tg. H n ass'dnously warns the electors nf not to in anv wny partake of what, he termed the Hunter political pudding offered tr« them hy his opponent, who. he tried to make the electors ot Kuripuni believe the oth?r night, was a stranger and a dangerous adventurer. Instead of ahying a candidate on whom the district may he congratulated, had Mr Hoe'e added to his eighteen-year-old .pudding the following ingredients' for th<* purpose of varietv and seasoning, he have made it more palatable to the elector?, viz.. a little of .Stafe coal (which he so vigorously condemned), one pound of Pongaroa railway, a ton of freehold tenure, a considerable quantity of closer settlement and no more renewals of extended leases of native land to already wealthy landowners, and by way of savoury addition he might put in a little of Mr Hunter's new brand of whisky, tea, and highly flavoured cigars. An old political campaigner may humbug some for a short time, others for a long time, but none for all time. The above pudding with the recommended additions might nrove a very savoury dish for Mr Hogg's self, if the electors will do him the honour to consign him to bask in the shade of his imaginary political monuments. As to his most prominent monument, did not Mr Hogg become a member of that most notable party, chiefly composed of Tommy Taylor, Frsher and Company, who cost the country £12,000 in connection with the voucher farce.—l am, etc., JOHN MACKAY.