Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extnded title of the Wairarapa Daily with which it is identical. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1892.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4236, 6 October 1892, Page 2

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED 1878] Being the extnded title of the Wairarapa Daily with which it is identical. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1892.

1 It was a clayor idea of one of the M.H.R.'s -who voted lor the £240 a year, paid monthly, to declare that be was only costing bis constituents Sixpence each. No donbt be considered himself dirt cheap at suet a price, and wondered whether bis friends in (he electorate would stand l a shilling each (or his benefit. That > would give him twenty-four poundß a week for big toil and moil in the Parliamentary Buildings; a stun which would, doubtless, en&ourage him to do his level beat for this " bleeding " country. Some Liberals gave one reason and some another for raising their own salaries; but tbe real reason, no doubt, is that they are 1 allgreedy for money, and finding' that it is in their powsr to take that which they are not earning, that which their ' work is certainly not worth, they simply plunge their hands into the 1 public £Qtse and help themselves with a liberality worthy of true Liberals. They only cost their constituents sixpence a week, they argue, bat is snob a contention true? If Mr Blatant liberal be returned by the votes of e thousand of his fellow men and that is a fair average poll/lie can only really claim to represent this j number. If his honorarium, bis free ■ pass on the railways, his pleasure trips, and hia extras at Bellamy's he divided among the thonsand it will: be found that he costs each oca of bis real constituents considerably mors than five shillings. However, it is for every householder to say for himself whether he is not taxed enough already and whether he can afford an 1 extra shilling or two to enable his representative to out a bigger dash in , the Empire City. Of course the sixpenny member may say far Mm truthfully ." Like the old woman's pig, I only cost sixpence 1" but ho suppresses the fact .that in his little calculation h« relies upon a sixpence from the houatholdar's wife and-asch of thai householder's children as well as from the householder himself, that he calls ths baby in the cradle his constituent and makes the unfortunate infant contribute its sixpence. What be virtually says is that tbrea or four shillings extra per annum from the family won't hnrfc it and will enable the hard-working member ■ to live like a figbiing cook in the Empire City. IE the householders see the thing in this light they will no donbt support the two pounds per diem sella on whifth members are now fixing themselves. We know now what a working man politician roally requires to livfl npon. We do not envy him his improved condition, but wa do say that when working men begiMo spend two pounds a day out of ths pubiic'porae, some poor beggars wbo have to help io lied tha money will have a difficulty in putting bread into tbeir cbildrans' mouths. Sixpenny members indeed I They are tuppanny-ha'ptnny members, and are dear at that price. Is there a working man politician in the Colony who is willing to lire on'tea shilling* a day during the time ho is at Wellingtoa ? "Ws hava nofc heard of such a man, but wt have heard of men who board out at a pound a weok and who yafc ara not satiaucd with Jess than £l2 week is payment for ; their I work, . ■ : :: : < ,r :