ADVICE TO TEAROHA ELECTORS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2951, 13 June 1891, Page 4

ADVICE TO TEAROHA ELECTORS.

TO Til K KlilTol:. i n:, - When Mm nomine" <<f tlio present (im I'l'llllH'lll. sec!,--; e!e;:ti"Il frolll till! cseetoir'. of To, Ai'i lii, ley advice t.u them i I li.it the.y ;]i<hi].t have. i,|>.■ s-ine filling I i.v.'ii'ih tin', present < lover niiM'nt. ;is I'roI'.l ml,; have towards lleerv \' 1 I I. lie Would 1... a f,„.| i.f a ['iMi.-.-l-siit who admired lli'lity, ami In; would 110 II fool of a 'IV Aroha uli:ct<>r who admiiei.l the pie-ent (I iverniiient. It is tint to be supposed that. Henry caused thii reformation from religious feeling, and if. is hoc to be. suijposed that the present re'rencliers retrench fi l mii tin: love of retrenchment. As Henry was a very ifji■ Mi ni, so ;• to the piesen!, relienciiers, in their he-irls, very far I .'tin ii,;in-r retrench"!s in (bo spirit of b ie; r rotrenchers. There is this similarity between the present n trenchers :■ i:-<t Henry, tii 't as Henry, bel''.re he did retonn the Cumuli, lie himself per rented the ri - I'll-11it;r., and tlio present I bivernmont, II .fore they now retrench, did perseciit" Atkinson in his retrenchment. When Alkiiimiii did retrench L'lt) for their t'l, the present I loverninent persecuted liiin and denounced retrenchment as im ovil. With Henry it whs nut religion ; it, was ho wanted a change from not fascinating Catherine to delicious Anne. With the present tloveinnient, they wanted a change trom out of otlice to in office. When Atkinson would letrench, they would not have his retrenchliient, and when Atkinson teased retrenching, then they would have retrenchment. Wo true retrenchers accept the present letrenchiiient with gladness, as the Pro. tj-.tants ilid tlio reformation j all the same, wo are not to be gulled—we do not accept lleniy as a religions saint, nor do we accept the present, Oovernment as retronchers, Why, when Mr liryce, as T)'fence .Minister retrenched tlio A. 0. oiiic-rs, .Mr I'-'llunco, who succeeded liini iiislaied l,lie-o same ollicers, and well <> I len.emb'o e.ther Mill dlanco or Sir K. S'out ilenoi.n.ing the reduction in Mmi-tei,,' sd.iiiiv. 'i'ne present rrtroncheis will claim credit, for retruiichiii'< after Aticin-«>n I rid ceased to do so. Now, I never was all admirer of Atkinson, but. I will s.iy tins for linn, ami that is l.'i it if he h id not got tired ami ceased re- ■ ■ ocoinei't he would not liavo been a man I'.iucy a min who had letrcnclieil I'UOO.OOO and not got sick of it, what a man ho would be, he would be unfeeling, upon whom the sufferings ot others had no elfect. All praise to Atkinson for enduiing the suffering ho has undergone in the necessary retrenchment, and all ciedit to him as a man for letting his feelings over run tlio necessity lor further retrenchment. Suppose Sir .James Hector in the necessity of science had to skin 100 live eels, Sir James would sulfer in seeing the agonies of the eels ; well after hu had skinned the 100 would it be surprising if SirJame.-. refused to skin any more? Sir James as a tender-hearted man would say science be blower! 1 will skin no more; but what would l;e said and thought of me if 1 had denounced him for skinning the eels, and when Sir James' feelings got the master f.f him, denounce him (Sir James) for not I'kinning more? Why all light thinking men would set me down as a humbug, a fraud, a sham, a false ]irefenccr, — I am, etc., -lI.Ut.U'KI-K.