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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2693, 6 September 1887, Page 3

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A'TOUCH IK'A VITAL SPOT. ' '•■■■ (iOIHE IiDITOB.) ' 'fußovoH your col.qqms.Mr Lyons las ( eritiioised a letter of mine on Free- , jrade anom dies. [ have neither the I jffiposition nor the ti-ue now" to ' auswor the Bophistries therein contained j suffice it to eay that Mr Lyons baa given uio credit for being intelligent, That ia a quality of mind that I poss.rtij only in common with other Protectionka. Bismark, the iroiJftjncellor of .Germany, is intelligent, dir J, McDonald, the Premier of Canada, is intelligent, the Hon. 1). Gillies, the Premier of Victoria, is intelligent.. The}' are all Protectionists, fle also gives me the credit of being desirous of doing good. That is a quaUty.ot' heart that J have only in common with other Protectionists. The name of Henry Clay will always be revered by Americans, and his virtues be- embalmed' in liov history, he. will always bo ."known an- "The Patriot": ho was a Protectionist; ' .'>ir, we are not ashamed of the company, we keep. I wish to assure Mr Lyons that'it requires intelligence and goodBess .to be anle to understand Protection principles, and the scope of their plication, It also requires intelligence to be able to understand'Freetrade principles l , and also goodness to' bo able to apply-'them properly.. Mr Hawkins, the,-champion ol ljVeetf'ade, baa said ':' that every man ought to have'the right to purchase his freehold aud .that the extent of bis holding fiboJff-bo only liruito by bis purchasing;!pofer,'!'. -In-fln bid book it is writtteu ''The laud is mine, I have given it to-you and to.your children for an everlasting pussessiou,.yo shall not sell. it. Moreover, the profit of tho land is for all, the King-himself is ' eerved : by the-field." That is.-the Magna (Jharta of Democracy. lu that same book, these scathing, burniug wordß occur: ''YY.oe, unto them thatadd.bouse to'houise and field to field.-until'tharii'' be.no' room.' That teob'lm been f tteful ever .since it was uttered, and to-day in Ireland,'- whore the: great battle ot Democracy is being fought, that woo is brooding over Jhe laud. The landlord' is doomed.Sir.l,. Mr/Hawkins will [be .relegated 'to private iifrj and I ask him in tho: name of Democracy to study our -eharbei' untU he can'adopt it,'then-. «jme to us and tell us. : "' 1 will isjierisb . itud defend your charter of fight, j ■will use my best endeavour that that. woe- shall never brood over.,this fair u . There is a good time noming, ; .SP." Evety man of yqu shall-yet '' dwell under his own vine and fig sr«e, none diring to make him afraid." this about I will labor and Jgtit with the pertinacity of the old /"Sea Dogs" whose blood runh in my =veinß." Then, Sir, .will the man and 'tliQ hour come, and Mr Hawkins will -toe the, "True Democrat." ", I am Ac.,-., Ohab. Holdaw+v.