CORRESPONDENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4737, 4 June 1894, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

"Unable."

[To ran Editor, W.D. Tims,]

Shi,—'Unable' lias returned from that delightful slandermongcring, thieving hole "Pahiatua," where house-breaking is commendable pastime, if the house liappons to belong to a poor man, and being here and at ease and rest, with your permission I will endeavour to show the fallacy of your leading article in last Tuesday's issue. You assert that there always is an unable class, and that at one time I have occupied that unenviable position, This I will grantyou, and more, I have many times been unable in the course of my colonial experience, but Sir, has it never occurred to your mind that the unable to-day arc the able to-morrow, and the man who goes out in the morning unable and penniless is the able at night,, when lie returns with the results of a day's labour in his pocket, Your assertion regarding the ablo is not true of New Zealand today—hundreds of men of the able Hall Mark, Imrdy, horny-hided sons of toil—nve unablo to provide for themselves or those dependent upon them, and if it were no.t so I, who never begged for myself, would not liayo attempted to buy a loaf of bread for tlicm, ancl now having done that and failed, I positively decline any overtures that may be made to me in aid of the shelter sheds and food depot .at Waingawa. I am, etc., • JOHK Winn,