THE AKAROA SEAT.

Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7717, 24 November 1890, Page 6

THE AKAROA SEAT.

TO TEES XDITOR OF THK PRESS. Sib.—l notice that in your account of Mr Joyce's speech in this morning's paper that is reported to have said that the present Government had added to the annual expenditure over a quarter of a million, and that if the Atkinson party got into power next Parliament they would raise the duty on sugar and tea. Such clap-trap is only equalled by the" utterances of the three great Liberals who are at present trying to force down the throats of the leas educated and less thoughtful of the Christchurch electors " artificial facts " of a similar nature. The object of such statements must be clear to Che majority of the electors, but of those who cannot bring themselves to believe that a man who appeals solely to laboring classes for his return to Parliament can possibly- misstate facts, I would beg that they should pause before they vote for a panderer of this kind. I should like to remind the electors of Akaroa of the conduct, during the recent- -■' labor'•' troubles, of this map who is seeking their confidence. He is well summed up by the New Zealand I Times, which, referring to bis well- ! known telegram, said:—" Mr Joyce has insulted the majesty of Parliament, and dragged the dignity of the Legislature through the mud, in which only invertebrate delegates can hope to find a miserable existence, bereft of every virtue, a, prey to every vice. *I dare not stonewall,' he says to his electors, ' without' your direction.' It is the most foul blow that has been struck at Parliamentary privilege iv our time. A member of the Representative Chamber has askedr his constituents to coerce him into breaking the law of Parliament, , and this during a crisis in the affairs of the country, in which air men have a right to look to Parliament as the refuge and protection of the cause of law and order. The man who, knowing that the majority of his constituents belong t'o'one side of the dispute that has brought about such a crisis as the present, addresses them a humble request for directions of this sort is a padderer. of the worsD sort. Thoughtless ! We*listen to no'such" plea; if a man cannot use the faculties that bod gave him, he is unfit to represent any interest in Parliament. He is fit only to retire into the obscurity which is his position."' To be able to point to the subject of the above as their; representative-in the House, should be the last wish of the electors of Akaroa.—Yours, &c, Anti-Claptrap.