McCARDLEISM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1737, 16 July 1884, Page 2

McCARDLEISM.

To the Editor, Sir, —What has become of the rampant, raging blusterers? A. sudden lull has fallen on the town. Get a long stick, Mr Editor, and rouse the sleeping lion, Havo tlio people become " bunkum hardened ?" Will blatherskite 110 longer impress them? Has Suttonia ceased to be a relish, and brain sauce lost its piquancy ? Oh, vile I vile 1 How can the people turn against tbek idol, he is guaranteed Im to name, and yet they won't secure him. Now is the only opportunity ihoy will everobtain. Do, Mr Editor, suggest something to goad thein on, or we shall havo to get parson Andrews bullock driver's remedy as a last resource, 1 am, Sir, Limp,

(To IDE EDITOn.) Sir,—ln your leading atticle of the 15th insfc, you advocate cheap land as deferred payment land. This amounts tJBT \ admission that the deferred payment lanaw * too high priced, and with that I quite agree, [ but venture to argue that the remedy proposed-that of land boing sold at half the money for cash—is not the proper remedy, Why should not land be sold at the same rate on deferred payment as it is for cash ? By all means sell it at £1 per acre, but give everyone an opportunity of getting some and therefore let it be optional to pay cash or take it on deferred payment. The addition of a low rate of interest—five or six per cent-would pay the Government and give the deferred payment system men a show. It seems to me that the desire of all New Zealand Governments is revenue. Settlement is not encouraged, tho idea is, got all that can bo squeezed out of the people. I am, ifcc., Observer,