AN AMUSING LETTER.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3103, 4 June 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN AMUSING LETTER.

Mr Habry Furniss, having- been asked by the Bast Mary.'ebone Liberal and Radical Association lo ber-.ome the chairimiu of one of their wards, has sent the following reply : ■ " Garrick Clnb.Gnrrick street, March 18, 1892;— Dear Sir,—lh.tve just received your flattering communication asking , me to become the chairman of No. 2 Ward of the East Maiylobonc Liberal and K.-tdieal Association. It is the firsr, time my name has ever been associated with party politics and I nm puzzlod to know myself whether I ara.u Radical, a Tory, a Liberal, or a Liberal Unionist ! I read the Times every morning and the Star and Pall Mall Gazette every evening. I read the sportio": paper.s for their politics and tho political papers for their literary and artistic note-. I work sixtee-. hours a day mvself, aud would aarce to any law prohibiting- others in my profession from working more than three hour*. I am strongly opposed to Home Rule,, as the disapDeiiranco of the Irish memoera (who are invaluable to me in my profession) from St. Stephen's would bo a serious loss to trie. I agree to paying , members of Parliament, but would propose that they should be fined for non-attuiuU : «iic«, and for the privilege of speaking too : ;i>n»-, too often, or not often enough , ihe«u tines, in the majority of cases would come to three times the" amo.int, o'f : the member's income, I mn not iu favour \

of capital rraiiishmpnt-., and wouM dr> away with all judg.i:- and trials bv jnrj, leaving the pre.-JS to Tiulit out the criminal cases between tlietnsi-lves. I b 'li. vo in fiou education, fiv'.i libraries, and a fro;.- break fast ta ! >l>', and wulci pi-->jnis-.. ih;..t f;,.p boototills nnd fro rrst.-nii-.mt- s)i.,u!.l hi-,v.,,ljlulv.>-V CI. .-ill r.ilv-M,. I ..„ -.Ir-.111/lV n])|".si:.l »o vivis'uliou, aud \n'A th.-i 1 lhlif,! ~! :i r.-tli'"i' r- M-iii-- -i- hi <i -.\>U. ''.) n of a protV-ssnr; :it th' , saiiu , ii:i,c I -.v.>n.ll not countenanci! auy law nmkiiiir a ;i puuishaiile fiffouoo to boil a loliKtor (ilii-e. I am a bflifiv.-r in hy|iiioli.---m, tiwn.\rhrrpucli'is", nnti tlicosopliv. (1 liiivo ijt<-ii .: liil of .'in iiui.'iti'iir u -injuri i' mysirlf ) Riiilit of public mi-ctiu:: 'i Ci'vtainlv." Thi- ■AmwU he a frw iMiuutry—"V:;iv om iio in , |ik«>->. K.)..tbiill in Hyil.i' ■ ■n 1 I'.ii^ ill 'PlMfllly l"-.-'iill •>".'. IOfJII (1 l"l - ._"f ;j :ij:! I 'ill' all pincpssinui—if !?<■■■: i< r::n si-:ji ll:i----f:v.ffi' , Ifi f SMI. .'v-iiiucr's n:."-:!.'iirprii'r \s t'i I'KKil '<|ition, bv ••ll means 1 't i!i puiii.u housi-s be eli»:ed (I iicvtir rtilci , o:ii..) Au'l all club", t io, >o louif a-: my own ;ij- ■ not interfered with. I air, not. at piv.*;<nt a inembur of imy political drib, but if you wish me to b"c.o:nt! unci will put up for the Riii'orui, uitiii'i-us* fo'-veiif.(Tlu'.]«t.-.ui.iii or a red-hot ljuwni.«t: idoii't miiiii wliiuli, as neither have trie sliichtcst i-liLtic: of gettinjr in now. If after coii-iderintr tlioyn qnalih'catious you aro ot opinion that I would be tho rijiht man in this risrht place, I shall be most happy and williutf to becomo your chairman,—Yours faithfully, Hakrv Fuiinis.s.