The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1890

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3670, 24 November 1890, Page 2

The Wairarapa Daily. MONDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1890

Wjs ara'pfiiip ppjnjqn. that Iff L W, Hogg qeserve's'the defeat" whicli is in store for lijip as {he. result of the present election. In the ordinary intercourse of life he is kindly enough, but in political warfare he is erpl and nierpiless. Three years age he encouraged, Mf. Hawkins to come forward for this district and discouraged Mr : p McCardlo from standing here. When Mr Hawkins had been brought out into the field to split up Mr Beetham's votes, Mr Hogg-stepped, in himself, and so placed Mr Hawkins in a njfjful helpless position, Then' in the wesent contest Mr Hogg induced Mr McCardio to ester intoa compact if) wliwli tliß cljanceg were ten tp'pnp against, the latter'; '• Mf,"'Modar|p, tliey say, lias gone hop kplfonhearted, and Mr Hogg is triumphant, but t(ie gth/of December will avenge MrMcCardlef '■ ■'.

■Wk aro puuzled! We read in Mr Hogg's own paper that at a recent up country meeting three cheers were given for tho liberal candidate and yet our own reporter, who was present at ihe gatherinjsolemnly assures us that he is not deaf and that at tho meeting in question he did not heor three cheers, he did not hear two cheers, he did not ]jeav even one phecr. At a former election in tije district a candidate used to writpout Ins speeches prior to his meetings, and /give ijjem into the printers hands before' thoy were delivered. Against any. parage he himself deemed eloquent lie would write such words as" applause,"•■" loud applause" and "cheers," and where ho held up a friend to ridicule ho would; insert "laughter" or "loud laughter" He anticipated, 'as it were, the' emotions of his audienco,and probably in the present instance our local contemporary must have forecasted "chpers," and if the cheers did not happen to be giveu, thoy oiigijt tp have been, and there's an end of it,

Wb alluded the other day to the benefits conferred by the frozen meat enterprise on small farmers, but wo find they pre even grater than we then imagined, These bloated capitalists, Nelson Bros, who, if labour candidates had their sway, would be hunted out of New Zealand, are offering ufiwjwi amlmct to farmers for a supply.of sheep, For first class, wpthers they will Rive 2d per jb, which means 10s for a COIb sheep, delivered in Wellington,'the vendor having the benefit of the '• skin and offal. A farmer cau iiowmab a certainty. ,o( five .years remunerative prices 1 for'good sheep, but if there were no frozen meat enterprise.sheep would now be a drag in the market, ,and tho. farmer would only receive 'fourdrlive'gbillingsjerlieadinstead of ten. St|ll Mr 'Hogg liolOs tjiafc dear meat is a bad.'thing■ fpr the Colony because it .^increases, the cost of the working man's dinner I It' is, liowisyer,' a good. thing for farmers! who would: have to wait a long :time before tlioy got a lift jib 'this from JTjßi|Ji|iip9W"fllift'ftW..-' "'■'

"■ A wmiEiUias asked us how it is i hat a land!tax moans a twenty-five per cent rental tax, and we '-thinkwe oannot answer liini better,than by quoting tho following extract from an article published by Mr iiogg in February last :-.

In round figures tho Government has sold 20,000,000 acres, and il town and OJimtry lands aro lumped logothcr this may bo avoragod as worth £3 per aero or £1)0,000,000, Estimating the annual rental value of. this at oiily four.pbr'cent," tho yearly inooiuo would be £2,533,933. If tho stats taxes tho land to tho extent ol only one fourth' of this, tho annual incomo thus derivod would bo £'CIS,S33 from a laud'tax as against Hie loss of arising from tlio abolition of the Property Tas, and the removal of £250,000 onsloms duties. Tho lax which would ho on the value of the land only and not on tho improvements would.bo equal to 2Jd in tho £ or about one per cent on tho capital value. In'return for this the Proporty Tax would bo dispensed with and tho saving through tho abolition of Customs duties on the necessaries of Wo would amount to about £ls per annum for each family in tho colony, ''

Our farmer friend will see from the above that Mr Hogg proposes to tax him oidij to the extent of one fourth of the yearly mconio of his land, or, as m put, it 25 per cent on tho rental value of his farm. 1 : It will be noticed too that no margin is allowed in Mr Hogg'B estimate for exemptions, and on the figures supplied both small and large farmers can oaloulate exactly what they would have to pay. They have only to estimas what one fourth the annual'vai'uoM of "'their properties amounts to and prepare, to. hand in the sum, whether ten pounds, fifty pounds or one hrindrod pounds, to tlie Colonial Treasurer,

The Evening Press has published the following graphic account of an interviow between Mr Henry Bunny and the Bush settlers on the land revelation- questnn. We heard something of. tho affair, at tho time, and do not doubt the general accuracy of the sketch, ■' Mr Bunny, upon the. occasion of hi 9 interviewing tho above 'mentioned settlers l had previously been summoned by circular fron) the department to meet him and Mr McCardlc, also a member of tin' Board, at tho district railway station, His remarks were as follows, addressing himself to' Mr McCordlo; "Well, McCardlo, here wo aro at last; I am suro I do not know what tho d—l wo camo for,. Hooarthur was not such a fool; ho know hotter; sent a telegram at the last moment, "cant come," We can do nothing: when does tbo train go back?" Then, seeing tho largo body of settlers waiting to receive hini on tho platform! "Holloa, who aro you?" (this to tho settlers), "Oh, you aro the fellows that want your rents reduced. Well, look here now. I have seen tho land you complain of, and my private opinion is there is nono of it worth a pound an acre, Personally I wouldn't havo it at a gift, But that has nothing to do with tho matter; tho whole principle of tho thing is wrong, I don't caroa straw what tho land is worth, You bought it of your own free will; no one compelled you, and ail I can say is that you wore a parcel of d—d fools over to toko up such land, but now you havo dono so, ypu will get iio redress if I can help it. My advicoto yon is, borrow all you can on it, and ieave it to the mortgagee." .

We are not at all surprised at th,« sentiments Mr gunny then expressed. At the tjtne lie had, uqt the slightest ilHetiiion tf again becoming a •Parliamentary oandidato and could kick up his heels at struggling settlers with impunity. There is no man in the community who enjoys jumping down a small settler's throat like Mr Bunny, and it was, wefeelmore {hap s'ure, Jfj him, to' be ithlo to Vub tj|e bush settlers to his heart's gontent,.- Jiny Jf lie had for one moment dreamt that ho would again ; bo a parliamentary, candidate, we are confident he would have behaved in-quite a different manner and not allowed his personal 'prejudices, to interfere ; with his obligation'under tbeEevalulion 'Agt to gly>. toe oattfeps. )n question |he i'plief they were entitled tb by law,.