"LIBERAL" AGAIN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2998, 1 October 1891, Page 3

"LIBERAL" AGAIN.

— ♦--- To THE FIiITOK. rfllt, —Your correspondent "Liberal" is still in Ins sueeiiiig vein. Ho cannot address himself to polities without wiitiug hi a contemptuous tone about tliosu of his fellow-men who dare to hold different views to hia own. He says: " The Socialists (or by whatever name they are known to themselves) are not likely tci support so uncompromising an opponent of their fads as Mr Lake." if "Liberal" wishes to find some other name for this body of thinkers, would " haters of injustice and despi.sers of trumpery two penny-half-penny ill-bred cads" suit him'.' "Liberal" poses as a college-educated man, and ovidently has no desire to have any intercourse with the working-men-or, as ho would doubtless call them, the " riff raff "—of the colony. I havo no doubt that "Lihoral " is always ready to rceeive any little addition to tho vast fund o£ knowledge which ho gained at colloge. Therefore let me <|iioto a passago from One of Washington Irvine's charming sketches, entitled "'The Country Church," over which he can ruminate at his leisure : —"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and comnninion with others, however humble. It is only .spurious pride that is morbid and sensitive, and shrinks from every touch. I was pleased to see the manner in which they (the sons of noblemen of high rank residing in tho parish) would converse with the peasantry about those rural concerns and field sports in which the gentlemen of this country (Knglaud) so much delight, In tha3o conversations there was neither haughtiness on tho one part u >r servility on the other, and you wero only reminded of tho difference of rank hy the habitual respect of tho peasant." If landlords, runholders, capitalists (or whatever they choose to call themselves) mixed more with the working-classes and endeavoured to comport themselves after the inanuur of real goutlefolks iu England, these labour troubles would never have been heard of, nr at. uny rate would not have assumed their present dimensions, and all would have gone on peacefully and harmoniously ; but instead of that they have, in my opinion, been the real stirrers-up of class hatreds and feuds and promoters of class legislation. —I am, etc., Lorit.uu.