ADVICE TO THE TE AROHA ELECTORS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2956, 25 June 1891, Page 3

ADVICE TO THE TE AROHA ELECTORS.

» TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Very likely in this election now being contested thoro will be tried to Rfit great oHect from tlm landholders of England being robbers who ate robbing the people. I have something to say to that. Four hundred years ago tlio Polish nation without oxception were tho most gallant and chivalrous people on the f;ice of the earth, John Sobneaki with his Poles cheeked the victorious Turk before the walls of Viem::i and savod Christianity from beine; over r:a by the Mahumedaiis. At that I'i.stnc: time Knglaud as a nation was oocuiid liiidib tn Poland. Kncrland(l only say because it is shorter than saying Great Britain and Ireland) now stands high and Poland stands low, one law has been the greatest factor in this ascending and descending, that law is termed by the short sighted an unjust economic law. I refer to the feudal law wlncli enabled the Crown to give great tracts of land to its favourites— with that law wa.- included the law nf entail. That law of entail kept the aristocracy of Knglund rich, and to Kngland having a rich aristocracy wo are now indebted for its greatness, and through Kngland the world and mankind have advanced. In past times it was necessary to have a rich aristocrasy, for in those times intelligence was po that men had to bo led and ruled by lenrior.-t, nnd Ihut the pr"gre.---s and evolution of mankind should go on and on, it was neci'm;iry that these leaders should be rich. Why so? Pleasing or not jileasine to your readers, I will say how it should be so ; the how a rich aristocracy will not be, and has not been, so corrupt as a poor mistocraey. Had Kng Ittud's pit** uri«tucivoy beeifpoor the world

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