WAIPA ELECTORS AND THE PRESENT CRISIS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1866, 21 June 1884, Page 3

WAIPA ELECTORS AND THE PRESENT CRISIS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — The latest turn of the political kaleidoscope has resulted in the apparently inextricable and chaotic confusion of parties, with the result that wo shall probably be soon in the heat and turmoil of a general election, It becomes us therefote to scan caiefully the situation, and to watch closely our true interests lest we become the mere tools of political schemers and adventurers bent only oh furthering their own interests or those of the clique they represent. Let us set our faces especially against those who favour the rotten and ruinous system under v, hich immense blocks of native land can be acquired by a few to be retailed at an enormous profit to the worksettler. Above all let us beware of the plausible professions of piomoters of " philanthiopic." Native lands companies whoa? " philanthropy" consists in making nil the nionoy they can out of Native or European. Do not let any petty issue, as the making a bridge or a road" decide our choice in the selection of a representative. Let no mere ephemeral or local considerations unduly influence us in our decision to the dettiment of our more lasting and vital interests. Rather let our watch-woid be. "All native lands to be sold publicly, through the Crown Lands Boards." If all the capital invested in gigantic native land speculations, both by the ordinary land jobbers and by "philanthropic" native laud companies, had been devoted to some moie legitimate and useful purpose, s.iy, the comeision of some of the manifold law piodncts of the colony into manufactured mateiial, there would be a womhous change for the better, especially among the farming classes. I don't think the capitalists themselves would have reason to regie t their venture either in the long uin. Fellow electors, let our rallying ciy be then as above, and take no heed' of what schemcis- or their paid political pimps, the electioneering loafers may tell us to the contrary — I am, &c. Wm. Johns. Te Awamutu, June 20th, 1884.

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