A WORKING MAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1741, 21 July 1884, Page 2

A WORKING MAN.

TO THE EDITOR. Fellow Workmen,—On Tuesday we have to record our vote, Before doing

so, I should like to ask you to look before you leap. In all the electoral rat trap, not one good reason has been given against our late member. Now let us see what he has done for our class, perhaps some of you do iiot know. After the Roads and Bridges Construction Act was passed, and a certain portion vms set aside of the grant obtained for opening up tracks to Crown Lands, he with several other gentlemen, went and previously inspected the country, and one of these gentlemen was a small settler, too, and tracks were opened to some of the finest country in New Zealand, not for the big squatter, but for you and me to choose from. What one is there amongst us, if he had a just grievance, and went to Mr Beetbam, he has not i always done his best to get it redressed for us, What are his relations now doing, and have been doing for over 12 months. Take their property all round, they, are finding employment for about five hundred men, many who would otherwise be walking the country and wanting food. I know there are reforms wanted in our Land A.cts, — Well, will you tell me that one is not as able to help as Mr McUardle 1 and has he not expressed his willingness,-to do so 1 Look at one of his bitter opponents ; is it not private spite that is doing it; and gentlemen using such' weapons, are they fit to advise us how to choose 1 ! No! Then fellow workmen' go straight for Mr Beetham, who has always tried to do his best for ns, whose terms are cash for labor done; whoso door is never shut against the hungry swagger j whose purse has always been open to help in sickness and for any charitahle purpose, and whose great crime in the eyes of some is that he is a straightforward honest gentleman. lani, &c,, Workman.