THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE RATEPAYERS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 107, 12 February 1901, Page 2

THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE RATEPAYERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The letter over the signature “ John Cameron ” in your last issue has given rise to a good deal of mirth. Mr Cameron has suddenly developed into a champion of the rights and I liberties of the ratepayers. It is in- I deed strange that such an experienced I legislator should have so long failed to I recognise these “ rights and liberties,” I while he joins the hectoring crew I whose continual cry they are, though I this same party have been unable to I show how the “ rights and liberties ” I have been infringed. The rights of I the people are laid down in Acts of I Parliament, and the. bullies who have I been so prominent lately have never I yet tried to show that these were 1 1 trampled on, except by obeying the I Acts of Parliament made for the people I by the people. If carrying out the I law is taking away the rights and I liberties of the people, then Mr I Cameron’s intelligence is beyond the I ken of ordinary mortals. Mr Cameron I and the gentlemen whose topi ho is I have made no end of fuss because ibe I law was not carried out, and then they I protend that the rights of the rale- I payers are being infringed. In the I meantime I would like to know if Mr I Cameron obeys the laws he is so I awfully righteous about, and applies I for a slaughtering license for his I slaughteryards. It will be interesting I to many people to see Mr Cameron’s I reply.—l am, &c., I Ratepayer. I