GENERAL THOUGHTS FOR A GENERAL ELECTION.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 123, 22 November 1893, Page 2

GENERAL THOUGHTS FOR A GENERAL ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATt. Sin,— Although I do not say, as David said in his haste, all men are liars ; still, by common consent, it is admitted that the majority are, for the most put, fools. Therefore I demur to the rule of "the majority " in all things, for what, alter all, is the majority but the shortseeing, if not unthinking, mass, moving like " dumb driven cattle," and easily rounded up to any given point by cunning stockmen and obedient dogs, " Trust the people 1 " Yes, trust tbe people when their minds are fallow, or yielding the fruits of simplemindedness and honor, which they will do if let alone ; but " trust them not " when agitated by the whisk of fanaticism or of political greed. J. J. Bousseau says truly : "If there were a people of gods they would govern themselves democratically ; so perfect a government is not suitable to men." Why Mary was commended rather than Martha is known to most of us. Were the two Bisters now upon earth, which, if either of them, would be an apostle of woman's rights ? Why was it forbidden to pull up the tares? Therefore, should we not trust the wheat to smother tho tares in the proper time ? All the proposed remedies for "crying evils" in these days are for external application only, contrary to the first principles of healing. But, alas ! the simple mind, in which faith in good loves to grow, is in danger of dying out. Froude gives us a reason for it : "It is being dissolved in the revolu* tionary acids of scientific civilisation. I am, etc., Zozimus.