CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3626, 30 September 1890, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.) 'f; Mr Bunny's address is a most v~. amusing production for a Liberal. The policy, if earned out, invites tha utter ruin of all protected industries, with the result of driving groat masses of labour either out of the colony or into the country distriots.. If the latter, it means, of course, bringing down the rate of wages, by competition, greatly to the advantage of large landowners. Then ha supplements this ■• by, ; his; land ; at auction soheme—so ouabling wealthy men to outbid poor ones, which they can afford to do when lie has sis plied tliem with oheap Toe most utterly selfish and grasping landowner could wish for nothing better; if such people exist Mr Bunny should be sure ot their votes. The extra amount they will pay under his taxation scheme will be a mere nothing as compared with the advantages theywillgain.'Theworking man may well say, "save me from my friends." .The most able Free* • trader has to admit that it is almost impossible, to stand with a clean sheet, after so many vested interests have sprung up under Protection, and would see tho neces. sity for gradually making the change, but Mr Bunny .never thinks below the surface, and fails to'realise what his proposals involve. Selling land at auction is petfectly sound in principle, but would make an enor-c raous change from the national policy W now in force. The Working, man * would have to at once give up tho idea of getting his little homestead on favourable terms, as compared with, the capitalist ogre.—l am, &c, v ' : -; A'SeITMR/T"' -,i i I, . , , \ OUo&go YaawUiod by Bostoa. • Footpad (presenting piatol)-"Forls over yo'ir rhino, and be'quick abous it." Near-sighted;' Bostonian—f' Beg pardon?" : .;' , :'• \. ■■'■ ;...' (Sternly,) "Noinontoyingl Un« limber I Produce the scads I" ." Pardon me, but I do not exactly apprehend the drift of .. ; ° Oheeae your patter I Don't you see I've got the drap ? Unload your boodle!" . '.. V■■'.;".'."\";: ', ":I am totally at a loss, my dear sir, to perceive the relevanoy of yow observations or " Clap a stopper on your gab and whack up, or I'll let 'er speak. Turn out your bundle amok 1 Got \ squirm. onyoui" '/'.,'." :^'vf.... *« Is there any peculiarity jn the external seeming of my apparel or "demeanour, sir, that impels you, a total stranger, to—" +X. " Once more, you bloke, will your* uncork that swag ?'/ ; ~ x (Hopelessly bewildered).' '" My friend, I oonfess my utter inability to d* gather any "coherent' idea from the & fragmentary observations you hava. ' jrnparted;' There is ,■ something fadiqally'jrreconoilable and inoap'able oi correlation in the' vocabularies Witli which we endeavour to make the reciprocal or. corresporidentjal interchange of our ideattJgdKL You will nardon me jJHfIHBk ' :