A TOILER'S VIEW.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 December 1913, Page 4

A TOILER'S VIEW.

A correspondent wlio claims to be a ''toiler" sends us a characteristic letter. • He kikes exception to our recent remark that the Lyttelton electors had had Socialism drummed into them at the street corner, and he then proceeds "to argae, in his own peculir way, that the workers «re beginning to think forj themselves, and that they will not be guided by the Press. That is just what we expected. The worker thinks that die hand of the Press is against him ; that it is controlled by capital; that it is run for the benefit of the privileged few; and that ft "perverts the ti-uth into congeries of mendacious falsehoods." This confirms our opinion that the Lyttelton electors were guided by the soap-box orator, the man at the street corner, rather than by the responsible vehicles of public opinion. : For the' benefit of our correspondent we would state that this paper is neither .owned nor controlled by capitalists; that it is bound to no party; and that it that course which it conceives to be in the best interests of the country, irrespective of class oil- creed. Our correspondence columns are always open, and we do not pretend that the opinions expressed. in our editorial columns are unassailable. We have a keen sense of patriotism, and we desire to see this magnificent country a bright star in the firmament of civilisation. We desire to see the country worth living in, and worth developing.