STRENGTH OR WEAKNESS.

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 36, 1 October 1896, Page 3

STRENGTH OR WEAKNESS.

to Tut: rnrroi:. Sin,—Many things bitterly have convinced me lint there is much wisdom in the aphorism of our ancestors, for instance, in the cue tint I wish to bring under your notice, viz., " His weakness is his strength." Without doubt there arc numbers, poor blind infatuites, who fail to recognise the actions of the Premier as weakness, believing that absolute strength is the factor which is moving the head ot the present adniinistration in New Zealand to perpo'rate the deed he is foisting upon the dwellers in this beautiful land of ours. I, however, with many others claim that it is sham weakness that has originated the faddy legislation of the present session, and the question which no.v presents itself argiur.cntativcly is, what is, or \vh(rein is ties weakness? I maintain that it is the offsprins; of feir—fear that if he dots not ponder to the whims and cipriees of the leaders ot certain organisations, even though they, as is well known have no more stake in the welfare of the country than that of lain.!,' highly paid officials, he will be ousted from his picsent elevated position and its cuialiinieiHs. Who and what are theec leaders ? It is obvious that they are parlies, I will not call them men, who will shed the last drop of their brothers blood in order that they may continue to engorge themselves with the proceeds of the levies made upon the energies of the bone and sinew of our fellow colonists the workers, not. the thinkers among them : and who by means of hint; nt denunciation of capital seek to keep alive the antipathies of the a! /loffai to the thrifty ami well-tod:.. Hence, and without much trouble they have found an aibocate in the portly person of King Dick, a willing tool, who by means of wire pulling and other objectionable practices has gathered {-round him a phalanx of effeminate .sycophants ready and willing to do his bidding whenever railed upon -honorable gentle-men,—-members of the I louse ot Representatives who have not the courage or honesty of their convictions but who in the pride of their weakness and for the sake of the bawbee sling mud at those whose- integrity they despis", and multrtnhie and'seek to destroy all that is noble and grand in those that have heme the heat and 1 urden of the il y as pioneer.-, who desire now that the afternoon of life has been reached to sit down and enjoy the fruits of their arduous industry and carefulness.—l am, etc., Dixit Amok I'atim.i:.