"THE TRUE DEMOCRAT IS HE WHO WILL"

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2679, 20 August 1887, Page 2

"THE TRUE DEMOCRAT IS HE WHO WILL"

. . (10-TEE iiDITOR.)' '' ' *■' ' Sffi—Aletter man isaue.-of last. Week had the above heading fjifeits.texfc; :L----admired that letter'very .much-., Thfr.«en?: r timents expressed' therein ;,are' : Bound: Mid;;, sensible,' and ptiipts out very cleayly.;wbat . the colony requires at the present'time. The; only- exception Ttake to the letter; b '■ that'the writer-runintentional uses the term, democrat!'' for " atates-H men..' The froe statenmon would exactl/"* legislate in the direction indicated by .the "' writer! but just let uie remark that demo* ■ cratic candidates are not the materials from which true statesman are usually '' manufactured.. New Zealanders.speak of this colony ,as being the most , perfect 1 paradise under the sun—a country of w, limited resources, its mineral wealth, Rr exceptional fertility,' its genial olimate, and ita superior advantages in all manner of ways. These are the common expres* ' sioas of past and prcuout legislators^'The other bounce of seomingly a majority of New Zealandevs is that the colony siuce.. its constitution hasbeen governed ,by . liberals, radicals, and democrats—degrees, of iniquity. - Thp liberals then haveW.' a monopoly of the legislation of the '• colony, and. what is thy product, -tKe actual result ?. With. allj thy uaturalod- '. '' vantages of the colony, and with these •. Heaven seut politicians is New Zealand happy and prosperous? &ro its citizens light burdened with taxation and contented? Eoho answers, Are they ? Wo' are at a very sorious stage in the history of _ thecolqnyand jvb nhould face the difficult®! in a serious manner. Po wesendtherigoW strmp of liieii to Parliament, are they men of aterlint' principles,' who have proved ■ themselves by their actions, not by words. Woorfght to consider in how far tho wretched £2lO a year is to blame for our .Wretched selection of candidates, ' T'notice Bome of them have reduced their, price to £l6O, but they are dear at the. money. It ought hot to be a question of Freetraders v. Protectioniotd,-- but a question of Statesmen v. Political Weather-cocks Men of honor, who have the love of their country at. heart, have their reward in. weil-doin?,. .mmae man who wants a billet, ride political, hobbies, aud trade on. the Working Mau ticket.' ~,J am one of those who have to earn their bread'by'the '• sweat of their ■ brow;"and I would say "Avoid the class Legislator as you would Sin; 'he will <Jn liarm, 1 and the first to feel the etiectg of bad the working man " ..A? . a great statesman remarked of bounty, " I '-think the timo tap ■ coibo ', when it'should really leave • the dry leaves;of political eoonpy a\!4 i mnnohing'the remaining; biscuit pf au | afiete Liberalism." • lam. etc., . Young BngmW. .