OUR COUNTRY RULER.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5488, 23 March 1910, Page 2

OUR COUNTRY RULER

(To the Editor.)

8»» — Will yon spare me a little space to adttress oar conntv raler. .Oh ! Mr County Chairman, what a fanny admission ! After exposing an unfortunate ratepayer on the public pillory, alter issuing— with the be)p of yonr two Waimapn visiers— autocratic orders to suppliant sawmillera, after throwing dust into the eyes of all and sandry by an autocratic substitution of personally nominated committees in

place of popularly elected Road Boards, in fact, after performing all the acts of one of those petty Eastern rulers who bear the title of Jam, to tell as that you imagined you were one. Oh ! Mr Chairman, how fanny. A well-known writer on Indian matters has placet! it on record that he fouad all the small provinces governed by a Jam "in a slightly backward state." Possibly this explains (he slightly backward state oi Tauranga. But, Mr County Chairman, a great democratic president of a great democratic country (a man who had no patience with Jams) gave some very pregnant advice to all autocratic rulers when he told the Americans that " you may fool some people all the time ; you may fool all the people some time; but you cannot fool all the people all the time." And so when the country settlers awake from their apathy, and we have one man one vote ia county matterg^ve may be freed from tbo rule of JiR. It is possible this may arrive sooner by means of that spread of settlement our most puissant Jam admits. But until that day comes round, Heaven keep us safe and souud; And, so most mighty Jam, Here's my abject, meek Salaam ; And my prayer high mightiness, That your shadow grow no less. I am, etc , 25 YEAEB A BATEPAYER IN THE OLD WAIMAPU.fcIDING.